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supercluster comparison table

Subject	has number of cluster	has synonym	has definition
Local Supercluster	100	Virgo supercluster	An aggregation of galaxies - roughly ten thousand of them - to which the Virgo Cluster and our own galaxy belong.
Perseus-Pisces region			A region of space containing a huge congregation of galaxies called a supercluster. The galaxies in this supercluster appear to be distributed in a long chain.

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