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  2. List of nearest galaxies - Wikipedia

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    Largest Galaxy in the Local Group (The Milky Way is the second largest), with at least 19 satellite galaxies. ... Closest spiral galaxy to Local Group forms pair with ...

  3. Andromeda Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged as Messier 31 , M31 , and NGC 224 . Andromeda has a D 25 isophotal diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs (152,000 light-years ) [ 8 ] and is approximately 765 kpc (2.5 million light-years ...

  4. List of galaxy groups and clusters - Wikipedia

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    Nearest galaxy cluster Virgo Cluster: The Virgo Cluster is at the core of the Virgo Supercluster. 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

  5. List of galaxies - Wikipedia

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    Nearest galaxy Milky Way: always 0 This is the galaxy containing the Sun and its Solar System, and therefore Earth. 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. Nearest dwarf galaxy

  6. Meet Firefly Sparkle, Webb telescope's galaxy find similar to ...

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    According to the team's findings published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, this galaxy made up of 10 star clusters exhibits traits of a young, gas-rich galaxy in its early formation stage.

  7. Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    The Milky Way has several smaller galaxies gravitationally bound to it, as part of the Milky Way subgroup, which is part of the local galaxy cluster, the Local Group. [ 1 ] There are 61 small galaxies confirmed to be within 420 kiloparsecs (1.4 million light-years ) of the Milky Way, [ 2 ] but not all of them are necessarily in orbit, and some ...

  8. NGC 6822 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 6822 (also known as Barnard's Galaxy, IC 4895, or Caldwell 57) is a barred irregular galaxy approximately 1.6 million light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. Part of the Local Group of galaxies, it was discovered by E. E. Barnard in 1884, with a six-inch refractor telescope .

  9. Researchers find binary stars orbiting near Milky Way's ... - AOL

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    The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is associated with wanton destruction, but a recent discovery throws that assumption into question. A team of international ...