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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 ...
The Local Group is a member of the supercluster, but not the cluster. Most distant galaxy group Nearest galaxy group Local Group: 0 distance This is the galaxy group that our galaxy belongs to. Nearest neighbouring galaxy group IC 342/Maffei Group: Most distant proto-cluster A2744z7p9OD: z=7.88 [23] Nearest proto-cluster Most distant massive ...
Local Group: Isolated member at the edge of the local group 11,500 ly 103 Andromeda XIX [72] dSph [55] 3.043 0.933 −9.3 Local Group: Satellite of Andromeda, spread over 1.7 kpc 2,200 ly 105 Andromeda XXII [68] dSph [55] 3.219 0.987 18.0 Local Group: Satellite of Andromeda 106 Aquarius Dwarf Galaxy (DDO 210) Im V 3.22 [51] 0.988 [51] −11.09 ...
Size (left) and distance (right) of a few well-known galaxies put to scale. There are an estimated 100 billion galaxies in all of the observable universe. [1] On the order of 100,000 galaxies make up the Local Supercluster, and about 51 galaxies are in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list).
Groups are the most common structures of galaxies in the universe, comprising at least 50% of the galaxies in the local universe. Groups have a mass range between those of the very large elliptical galaxies and clusters of galaxies. [5] Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is contained in the Local Group of more than 54 galaxies. [6]
Leo P is one of the few Local Group galaxies which are currently forming stars. Its star formation rate is about 4.3 × 10 −5 M ☉ every year, [2] or 1 solar mass every 20,400 years, and it is the Local Group's most metal-poor star-forming galaxy. Its star formation history shows mostly constant star formation throughout its lifetime ...
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The M81 Group is a galaxy group in the constellations Ursa Major and Camelopardalis that includes the galaxies Messier 81 and Messier 82, as well as several other galaxies with high apparent brightnesses. [1] The approximate center of the group is located at a distance of 3.6 Mpc, making it one of the nearest groups to the Local Group. [1]