Astronomers discover that our galaxy is a suburb of a supercluster of 100,000 large galaxies
they have called Laniakea
In what amounts to a back-to-school gift for pupils with nerdier leanings, researchers have added a fresh line to the cosmic address of humanity. No longer will a standard home address followed by "the Earth, the solar system, the Milky Way, the universe" suffice for aficionados of the extended astronomical location system.
The extra line places the Milky Way in a vast network of neighbouring galaxies or "supercluster" that forms a spectacular web of stars and planets stretching across 520m light years of our local patch of universe. Named Laniakea, meaning "immeasurable heaven" in Hawaiian, the supercluster contains 100,000 large galaxies that together have the mass of 100 million billion suns.
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, lies on the far outskirts of Laniakea near the border with another supercluster of galaxies named Perseus-Pisces. "When you look at it in three dimensions, is looks like a sphere that's been badly beaten up and we are over near the edge, being pulled towards the centre," said Brent Tully, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
Great video at link that willl tell you everytning you ever wanted to know about the Great Attractor!!!!!!
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/sep/03/milky-way-laniakea-galaxy-supercluster-immeasurable-heaven
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Or are you going to tell me it's just a coincidence these "independent" scientists chose a Hawaiian name?
For the Dense, 
It reminds me a lot of what we used to talk about when we were hanging out in the late 70s 
, but with more math and much better computer programming technology. We weren't astrophysicists but we liked to think about this kind of stuff.
We need more marveling about us and where we are in the universe instead of all this fighting like we aren't all from the same place.
The video makes it all crystal clear 
