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The Local Group

author: Ron Miller/Novapix

reference: a-uni10-00118

Image Size 300 DPI: 44 * 25 cm

The Milky Way and its neighbors as seen from a location about 700 000 light-years from the Sun. The nearest galaxies are the two Magellanic clouds, beyond them is the spiral galaxy M33. There are about 30 members of the local group but not all show up in this perspective. The location of the Sun is marked by a red dot.

Keywords for this photo:

ASTRONOMY - GALAXY - GALAXY CLUSTER - GLOBULAR CLUSTER - ILLUSTRATION - LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD - LOCAL GROUP - M31 - M33 - MAP - MILKY WAY - NGC 147 - NGC 185 - NGC 224 - NGC 404 - NGC 598 - PANORAMA - SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD - SUN - UNIVERSE -