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Credit & Copyright: A. Oksanen,
2.6 meter Nordic Optical Telescope
Explanation:
Our Milky Way Galaxy is not alone.
It is part of a gathering of about 50 galaxies known as the
Local Group.
Members include the
Great Andromeda Galaxy (M31),
M32,
M33, the
Large Magellanic Cloud, the
Small Magellanic Cloud,
Dwingeloo 1, several small
irregular galaxies,
and many
dwarf elliptical and
dwarf spheroidal galaxies.
Pictured above is the
Aquarius Dwarf, a faint dwarf irregular galaxy over 3 million
light years away.
An earlier
APOD
erroneously identified the above image as the
Sagittarius Dwarf.
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Publications with keywords: Local Group of Galaxies
Publications with words: Local Group of Galaxies
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