Local Volume en · PROPN
Etymology
From local + volume from being the volume of space in which we exist (that which is local to us).
Meanings
- the volume of space around the Milky Way Galaxy out to a distance of approximately 10 megaparsecs or 35 million lightyears away or out to a cosmological redshift recessional radial velocity of 550km/s or z<0.002
Relateds
Local Bubble · Local Fluff · Local Arm · Local Supercluster · Local Interstellar Cloud · Local Group · Local Wall · Local Void · Local Filament