What does Laniakea mean?

Right click the image for full display. The blue dot in the center indicates the location of the Milky Way galaxy, home to our solar system.

Laniakea is Hawaiian and means immeasurable heaven.

Watch the videos below to get an impression or browse bookmarks on Laniakea for an incomplete listing of related sources.

best watched projected or on a big screen

YOUTUBE rENyyRwxpHo a visualization of our local galaxy supercluster

And for the more scientific audience:

VIMEO 105009816 Laniakea Supercluster Preview

VIMEO 104910552 Laniakea Supercluster

What it actually means

This is related to all rough sketches around the edges of the federated wiki linkmap plugin.