“If the Earth is your apartment, the Solar System is your city, the Milky Way is your region, the Virgo Supercluster is your country, and Laniakea is your continent.” “
Laniakea means “immeasurable paradise” in Hawaiian. Hawaii is home to some of the world’s largest telescopes, which were used just seven years ago to discover this celestial supercontinent around which our galaxy revolves.
In Laniakea, we, that is, the Milky Way and other galaxies, are moving at 400 miles per second, and sometimes even 93,000 miles per second due to the expansion of the Universe. The network of filaments formed by galaxies and matter bypasses the large empty spaces of dark matter like a network of rivers or a neural network.
With a span of 500 million light-years, Laniakea is immense. Its mass is 100 million billion times that of the Sun, and it contains 100,000 large galaxies like ours, each with 100 billion stars. Laniakea is immense, yet its immensity measures barely 1% of the observable Universe, and this universe is constantly expanding.
Steeped in science fiction, I love the idea of the infinity of worlds that Alessandro Jodorowski, Moebius, Enki Bilal, Stanley Kubrick, and Ridley Scott have invited me to discover, that reality transcends us, that we transcend ourselves, that we are part of something bigger, something further away. Infinity begins with us, with our brains, where 100 billion neurons