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Within Vinony's link graph, Great Attractor is referenced by 80 other articles, and connects out to universe, Milky Way and NASA.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1986, Great Attractor and Laniakea Supercluster.
Its subject is documented across 49 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- supercluster
- Part of
- Zone of Avoidance
- Named after
- gravity
- Constellation
- Norma
- Distance from Earth
- 75
- Mass
- 50000000000000000
- Image
- 2MASS LSS chart-NEW Nasa.jpg
- Speed
- 0
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- topic's main category
- Category:Great Attractor
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- has effect
- peculiar velocity
- theorized by
- Alan Dressler
- research site
- European Southern Observatory
- different from
- dark flow
- catalog code
- Hya-Cen-Pav-Ind-Tel
- declination
- -46.0
- right ascension
- 158.00
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
Hubble Space Telescope image showing part of the Norma Cluster, including ESO 137-002
The Great Attractor is a region of gravitational attraction in intergalactic space and the apparent central gravitational point of the Laniakea Supercluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way galaxy, as well as about 100,000 other galaxies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Great Attractor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.