🔬 Science Jun 4, 2026 · Kelly Kizer Whitt

The constellation Norma is home to the Great Attractor

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The constellation Norma is home to the Great Attractor
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The constellation Norma in the Southern Hemisphere is meant to represent a right angle. Chart via EarthSky.
What is the Great Attractor?
The Great Attractor is a massive gravitational anomaly: an invisible, unimaginably colossal amount of mass in space that astronomers did not expect to find. They know it’s there because it’s pulling on everything around it. It’s like a cosmic tug-of-war champion, pulling millions of galaxies – including our own Local Group of galaxies &#

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