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The Great Attractor is a region of space that is pulling our galaxy, the Milky Way, and many others towards itself ¹ ² ³:
- It is located in the zone of avoidance, which is the part of the sky obscured by the Milky Way galaxy, making it difficult to observe directly.
- The Great Attractor is estimated to have a mass equivalent to tens of thousands of galaxies and is situated around 150-250 million light-years away from Earth.
- The Great Attractor is moving towards the Shapley Supercluster, which lies beyond the Great Attractor, and is called the Shapley Attractor.
- It is believed to be the core of the Laniakea Supercluster, which covers approximately four main galaxy superclusters and spans across 500 million light-years.
