Show Notes
No matter where you are, you are always moving. The Earth orbits the sun, while the sun moves round the galaxy. But what makes the galaxy move? That is the topic of our video today. Everything in our local galaxy supercluster, Laniakea, is being dragged towards a high concentration of mass obscured by the opaque clouds of our galaxy, but what is it? It has all the ingredients for an epic cosmic mystery, the mystery of the Great Attractor.
Background Songs by CO.AG Music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Transcending Ambient Chill Out Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAp5ecwlU7MThe Deep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9TJrLeqnhw
All other tracks are from the YouTube Audio Library
CHAPTERS: 00:00: Introduction 02:13: Galaxies 04:04: Our Local Universe 06:56: The Laniakea Supercluster 09:00: The Great Attractor 10:03: The Zone of Avoidance 11:45: History of Great Attractor Observations 13:56: Surveying the Great Attractor Region 18:39: Dark Flow 20:27: The Dipole Repeller 22:16: CIZA Search 23:37: The Shapley Supercluster 26:03: The Vela Supercluster 27:30: A Mystery Solved?
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