The Antlia Dwarf, a 14. 8 < sup > m </ sup > dwarf spheroidal galaxy that belongs to our Local Group of galaxies.

The Fornax Dwarf galaxy is a dwarf galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies.

The Milky Way galaxy is a member of an association named the Local Group, a relatively small group of galaxies that has a diameter of approximately one megaparsec.

The Local Group itself is a part of a cloud-like structure within the Virgo Supercluster, a large, extended structure of groups and clusters of galaxies centered on the Virgo Cluster.

Our own Galaxy, the Milky Way, is contained in the Local Group of more than 40 galaxies.

Theories intended to explain these unusual clouds include materials left over from the formation of our galaxy, or tidally-displaced matter drawn away from other galaxies or members of the Local Group.

A member of the Local Group of galaxies, irregular galaxy Sextans A is 4. 3 million light-years distant.

The Local Group is the group of galaxies that includes Earth's galaxy, the Milky Way.

By 2003, the number of known Local Group members has increased from his initial twelve to thirty-six, by way of the discovery of almost two dozen low-luminosity galaxies.

The IC 342 / Maffei Group ( also known as the IC 342 Group or the Maffei 1 Group ) is the nearest group of galaxies to the Local Group.

Open clusters are also easily detected in many of the galaxies of the Local Group.

These luminous stars can be detected at great distances, and are then used to extend the distance scale to nearby galaxies in the Local Group.

With the exception of supernovae, individual stars have primarily been observed in our Local Group of galaxies, and especially in the visible part of the Milky Way ( as demonstrated by the detailed star catalogues available for our

However, outside the Local Supercluster of galaxies, neither individual stars nor clusters of stars have been observed.

The group is one of the closest groups of galaxies to the Local Group ; the distance to the center of the group from the Milky Way is approximately.

It is part of the Local Group of galaxies.

The former deals with objects such as the galaxies of our Local Group, which are close enough to allow very detailed analyses of their contents ( e. g. supernova remnants, stellar associations ).

Observations of Cepheid variables are very important for determining distances to galaxies within the Local Group and beyond.

The Systems Commonwealth was a huge Utopian civilization, spanning three major galaxies of the Local Group.

This could either mean Krypton is millions of lightyears away, well past the Andromeda Galaxy ( making it the most remote of its various locations in any Superman story to date ), or located in one of the dwarf galaxies closer to the Milky Way in the Local Group.

* In Perry Rhodan's multiverse, the humanity compounds a large society with many other species and live in some of the galaxies of the Local Group.

The constellation also contains the Sculptor Dwarf, a dwarf galaxy which is a member of the Local Group, as well as the Sculptor Group, the group of galaxies closest to the Local Group.

* 40 Zm — 4. 2 million light years — Distance to the IC 10, a distant member of the Local Group of galaxies

IC 342 is one of the brightest two galaxies in the IC 342 / Maffei Group of galaxies.

The table below lists galaxies that have been identified as associated with the IC342 / Maffei 1 Group by I. D. Karachentsev.

The M81 Group is a group of galaxies in the constellation Ursa Major that includes the well-known galaxies Messier 81 and Messier 82, as well as several other galaxies with high apparent brightnesses.

The table below lists galaxies that have been identified as associated with the M81 Group by I. D. Karachentsev.

The Sculptor Group is a loose group of galaxies near the south galactic pole.

Although CCDs are much more sensitive than photographic plates, they are rarely able to cover the large field of view required to capture most nebulae and nearer galaxies.

The average separation between galaxies within a cluster is a little over an order of magnitude larger than their diameter.

They typically contain no more than 50 galaxies in a diameter of 1 to 2 megaparsecs ( Mpc )( see 10 < sup > 22 </ sup > m for distance comparisons ).

For comparison, the diameter of a typical galaxy is only 30, 000 light-years, and the typical distance between two neighboring galaxies is only 3 million light-years.

It is one of the brightest and largest galaxies in the Virgo cluster, approximately 55 million light-years distant from Earth and has a diameter of 160, 000 light years.

The catalogue includes essentially all galaxies north of declination-02 ° 30 ' and to a limiting diameter of 1. 0 arcminute or to a limiting apparent magnitude of 14. 5.

It also includes galaxies smaller than 1. 0 arcminute in diameter but brighter than 14. 5 magnitude from the Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies ( CGCG ).

Its diameter is over 120, 000 light years, making it among the largest spiral galaxies in the Virgo cluster.

It is one of the largest H II regions in the Local Group of galaxies ; at the galaxy's estimated distance of 2. 7 million light-years its longest diameter is roughly 1500 light-years ( 460 parsecs ), over 40 times the size of the visible portion of the Orion Nebula.

As a result, the population II stars were actually much brighter than believed, and this had the effect of doubling the distances to the globular clusters, the nearby galaxies, and the diameter of the Milky Way.

The galaxy also has a vast outer spherical region called the corona, or dark halo, which is as much as 600, 000 light years in diameter and, in addition to dark matter which accounts for most of the Milky Way's mass, includes some distant globular clusters, the two nearby galaxies called the Magellanic clouds, and four smaller galaxies.

It is roughly spherical, about 20 million light-years in diameter and contains more than 3, 000 galaxies.

As of June 2012, NED contains 170 million distinct astronomical objects with 182 million cross-identifications across multiple wavelengths, with redshift measurements for 4 million objects, 1. 7 billion photometric data points, 8. 8 million diameter measurements, 43 thousand redshift-independent distances for over 10 thousand galaxies, 390 thousand detailed classifications for 210 thousand objects, and 2. 7 million images, maps and external links, together with links to 58 thousand journal articles, notes and abstracts.

* Led by Dr. Paul L. Schechter, astronomers at the Kitt Peak National Observatory reported the discovery of a " hole " in the universe, 300 million light years in diameter, that had only one-tenth of the stars and galaxies found elsewhere.