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(Top) 1 List. 2 See also. ... Largest Galaxy in the Local Group (The Milky Way is the second largest), with at least 19 satellite galaxies. ... Closest unbarred ...
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 ...
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 ...
Size (left) and distance (right) of a few well-known galaxies put to scale. The following is a list of notable galaxies.. There are about 51 galaxies in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list), on the order of 100,000 in the Local Supercluster, and an estimated 100 billion in all of the observable universe.
The Triangulum Galaxy (M33) is the third-largest member of the Local Group, with a mass of approximately 5 × 10 10 M ☉ (1 × 10 41 kg), and is the third spiral galaxy. [6] It is unclear whether the Triangulum Galaxy is a companion of the Andromeda Galaxy; the two galaxies are 750,000 light years apart, [ 7 ] and experienced a close passage 2 ...
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 ...
Insider went through the archives of three NASA observatories — JWST, Hubble, and Chandra X-ray — to find the most iconic pictures of space.
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]