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Picture Galaxy Type Distance from Earth Magnitude Group Membership Notes Diameter (ly) Millions of light-years Mpc M m - Milky Way: SBbc 0.0265 (to the galactic center) [2] 0.008 [2] ...
Apart from the Milky Way, only 4 galaxies are visible to the naked eye. [15] Centaurus A/M83 Group: 2 The Centaurus A galaxy has been spotted with the naked eye by Stephen James O'Meara [16] [17] and M83 has also reportedly been seen with the naked eye. [18] M81 Group: 1 Only Bode's Galaxy (M81, NGC 3031) is visible to the naked eye. [15] [19]
Nearest galaxy to the Milky Way Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: 1994 0.070 Mly The closest, undisputed galaxy. The disputed dwarf galaxy Canis Major Overdensity is even closer at 25,000 light-years. [citation needed] Nearest dwarf galaxy Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: 1994 0.070 Mly Nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way Andromeda ...
At the time of its announcement, the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy was classified as an irregular galaxy and was thought to be the closest neighboring galaxy to the Earth's location in the Milky Way, located about 25,000 light-years (7.7 kiloparsecs) away from the Solar System [2] and 42,000 ly (13 kpc) from the Galactic Center.
Hubble's law, also known as the Hubble–Lemaître law, [1] is the observation in physical cosmology that galaxies are moving away from Earth at speeds proportional to their distance. In other words, the farther a galaxy is from the Earth, the faster it moves away.
“Finding ceers-2112 shows that galaxies in the early universe could be as ordered as the Milky Way,” said study coauthor Alexander de la Vega, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of ...
The term "The Local Group" was introduced by Edwin Hubble in Chapter VI of his 1936 book The Realm of the Nebulae. [11] There, he described it as "a typical small group of nebulae which is isolated in the general field" and delineated, by decreasing luminosity, its members to be M31, Milky Way, M33, Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud, M32, NGC 205, NGC 6822, NGC 185, IC 1613 and ...
Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way, but onlookers will need to travel to a dark area away from human-made light pollution to see the dim glow of the galaxy. Experts recommend ...