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Great Attractor

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Great Attractor
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The Great Attractor is a galaxy filament.

Key Facts

  • Instance of: gravity anomaly[3], supercluster[4]
  • Constellation: Norma[5]
  • Named after: gravity[6]
  • Part of: Laniakea Supercluster[7], Zone of Avoidance[8]
  • Catalog code: VIR-HYA-CEN SUPERCL[9], Great Attractor[10], Hya-Cen-Pav-Ind[11], Hya-Cen-Pav-Ind-Tel[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Great Attractor[13]
  • Has effect: peculiar velocity[14]
  • Different from: dark flow[15]
  • Speed: 0 metre per second[16]
  • Mass: 50,000,000,000,000,000 solar mass[17]
  • Distance from Earth: 250,000,000 light-year[18], 75 megaparsec[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20]
  • Research site: European Southern Observatory[21]
  • Right ascension: 158.00 degree[22]
  • Declination: -46.0 degree[23]
  • Epoch: J2000.0[24]
  • Theorized by: Alan Dressler[25]

Why It Matters

Great Attractor has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

European Southern Observatory

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . SIMBAD. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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