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ShareThe Local Group (also called M31 group or the Andromeda group) is the group of galaxies that includes our galaxy, the Milky Way.
The group comprises over 30 galaxies, with its gravitational center located somewhere between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy.
For more information about the topic Local Group, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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Barred spiral galaxy — A barred spiral galaxy is a spiral galaxy with a band of bright stars emerging from the center and running across the middle of the ... > read more
Galaxy formation and evolution — The formation of galaxies is still one of the most active research areas in astrophysics; and, to some extent, this is also true for galaxy ... > read more
Milky Way — The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy which forms part of the Local Group. Although the Milky Way is but one of billions of galaxies in the ... > read more
Andromeda Galaxy — TThe Andromeda Galaxy (also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224; older texts often called it the Andromeda Nebula) is a spiral galaxy approximately ... > read more
Supergiant — Supergiants are the most massive stars. Supergiants can have masses from 10 to 70 solar masses and brightness from 30,000 up to hundreds of thousands ... > read more
Open cluster — An open cluster is a group of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud, and are still loosely gravitationally ... > read more
Blue supergiant star — Blue supergiants are supergiant stars (class I) of spectral type O. They are extremely hot and bright, with surface temperatures of between 20,000 - ... > read more
Star cluster — Star clusters are groups of stars which are gravitationally bound. Two distinct types of star cluster can be distinguished: globular clusters are ... > read more
Spitzer space telescope — Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility [SIRTF]) is an infrared space observatory, the fourth and final of NASA's ... > read moreNote: This page refers to an article that is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the article Local Group at Wikipedia.org. See the Wikipedia copyright page for more details.
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