I thought you might like to hear a recording of piece I heard a couple of weeks ago at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. This is Laniakea by French composer Camille Pépin which is inspired by our Local Supercluster of galaxies which astronomers have named Laniakea, an Hawaiian word meaning “immeasurable heaven”. Stylistically the music reminds me a lot of John Adams, and I don’t mean that in a negative way!
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Laniakea – Camille Pépin
Posted in Music, The Universe and Stuff with tags Camille Pépin, Cosmology, Laniakea, Local Supercluster, music on November 3, 2026 by telescoperLaniakea – Our Local Supercluster
Posted in The Universe and Stuff with tags Brent Tully, Cosmology, Laniakea, Local Supercluster on September 6, 2014 by telescoperMy week of self-imposed isolation is almost over so I suppose I should try to re-acclimatize myself to the world (or at least the world of the internet) by doing a quick post of a nice video. I remember Brent Tully talking at the conference I went to in Estonia earlier this summer about the work he has been doing with his collaborators on using the local peculiar velocity field to map structures in the galaxy distribution. Now the paper is out in the journal Nature. Laniakea is the name the group chose for the local supercluster which has been known about for some time, but this work provides a more detailed map. The name Laniakea means “immeasurable heaven” in Hawaiian, from “lani” for ‘heaven’ and “akea” for ‘spacious’ or ‘immeasurable’. Rather disappointingly it has nothing to do with Ikea, so sheds little light on my own theory of the Universe.
