The Laniakea Supercluster (Hawaiian: Laniakea “immeasurable heaven”; lani for heaven + akea for immeasurable or spacious) is the galaxy supercluster that is home to the Milky Way, the Solar System and theEarth. It consists of three regions, which were previously designated as separate superclusters:
- Virgo Supercluster, the region where the Milky Way resides,
- Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster, which contains the Great Attractor, the Laniakea central gravitational point,
- Pavo-Indus Supercluster.
The name Laniakea was suggested by Nawa‘a Napoleon, an associate professor of Hawaiian Language and chair of the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature at Kapiolani Community College, a part of the University of Hawaii system. … The name honors Polynesian navigators who used knowledge of the heavens to voyage across the immensity of the Pacific Ocean.