English: A diagram of our location in the Local Supercluster in a series of five star maps that show from left to right our location in the Solar System, in the Sun's neighborhood of stars, in the local area of the Milky Way galaxy, in the Local Group of galaxies, and in the Supercluster of galaxies.
UPDATE: There is a new, more accurate, higher quality version of this image and its constituent parts that can be found at the Location of Earth in the Universe!
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