The Universe: Local Supercluster of Galaxies
The Local Supercluster of galaxies (also know as the Virgo Supercluster) is the irregular supercluster that contains the Local Group of galaxies, which in turn contains the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies. At least 100 galaxy groups and clusters are located within its diameter of 33 megaparsecs (110 million light-years).
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