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Home galaxy of Earth. Barred spiral galaxy. 87,400 ly 1 Ursa Major III: ... Closest spiral galaxy to Local Group forms pair with NGC 55 94,000 ly 119 KKR 25:
The closest encounter to the Sun so far predicted is the low-mass orange dwarf star Gliese 710 / HIP 89825 with roughly 60% the mass of the Sun. [4] It is currently predicted to pass 0.1696 ± 0.0065 ly (10 635 ± 500 au) from the Sun in 1.290 ± 0.04 million years from the present, close enough to significantly disturb the Solar System's Oort ...
Nearest Galaxies by Type Title Galaxy Date Distance Notes Nearest galaxy Milky Way: always 0 This is the galaxy containing the Sun and its Solar System, and therefore Earth. [citation needed] Nearest galaxy to the Milky Way Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy: 1994 0.070 Mly The closest, undisputed galaxy.
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
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) from ...
The galaxy's strange morphology is generally recognized as the result of a merger between two smaller galaxies. [34] Zoom movie of the galaxy Centaurus A, showing different aspects of the galaxy in several wavelengths. Schematic diagram of the components of the Centaurus A galaxy. The bulge of this galaxy is composed mainly of evolved red stars ...
Proxima Centauri, the star referenced in Klein’s tweet, is the closest star to Earth, according to NASA. It is part of the Centaurus constellation but is not visible to the naked eye because of ...
List of galaxies with richest globular cluster systems; List of nearest galaxies; List of galaxies named after people; List of spiral galaxies; List of polar-ring galaxies; List of ring galaxies; List of quasars; Satellite galaxies. List of satellite galaxies of the Milky Way; List of Andromeda's satellite galaxies; List of Triangulum's ...