Observations detect hundreds of possible supergiant stars in two nearby galaxies
Using the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), Chinese astronomers have identified nearly 300 ...
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The Galaxies of the Local Group
The Local Group is a small cluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way. At least half of all galaxies in the Universe are thought to belong to similar groups. This authoritative volume provides a ...
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Galaxies, Clusters, and Superclusters
Our Milky Way Galaxy is one of three large galaxies in the Local Group of Galaxies. The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd entry in Charles Messier's catalog ...
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The Milky Way and Andromeda may not merge, after all
The team, led by Till Sawala of the University of Helsinki, ran simulations including four of the largest galaxies in the ...
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Astronomers Puzzled By Cosmos' Largest Known 'Supervoid'
Spanning some 1.8 billion light years, the team remains mainly baffled as to why such an extensive void --- in which the “density of galaxies is ... The so-called ‘ Local Void’ remains ...
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Jerusalem scientists help shed light on large-scale cosmic structures
The Milky Way has several satellite galaxies and is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which form part of the Virgo Supercluster, which is itself a component of the Laniakea Supercluster.
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Distorted galaxy whizzes through crowded cluster in new Hubble Telescope image
The galaxy, IC 3225, is located about 100 million light-years from Earth and is a member of a large group of galaxies known as the Virgo Cluster. A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope ...