| Galaxy And I And II And III Antlia Dwarf Aquarius Dwarf Carina Dwarf Draco Dwarf Fornax Dwarf IC 10 IC 1613 Large Magellanic Cloud Leo I Leo II LGS 3 M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) M32 (NGC 221) M33 (Triangulum Galaxy) M110 (NGC 205) NGC 147 NGC 185 NGC 205 (M110) NGC 221 (M32) NGC 6822 (Barnard's Galaxy) Milky Way Phoenix Dwarf SagDIG Sagittarius Dwarf Sculptor Dwarf Sextans Dwarf Small Magellanic Cloud Tucana Dwarf Ursa Minor Dwarf Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte |
Astronomy ---------------- |
| Galaxy |
| The solar system is located in a galaxy. The galaxy we live in is the Milky Way Galaxy. Certain galaxies are listed as part of the Local Group. This list shows the 31 galaxies in the Local Group, although there are other galaxies that may be a part of this not shown here. Note that M32 (NGC 221) and NGC 221 (M32) are the same galaxy, and M110 (NGC 205) and NGC 205 (M110) are also the same galaxy. |
| M is the listing of messier objects, and NGC stands for New General Catalogue. The largest known galaxy is M87, an elliptical galaxy in the Virgo cluster, containing around 800 billion stars. The smallest known galaxy is Pegasus II, a dwarf elliptical galaxy of about 10 million stars. The nearest galaxy is Sagittarius, a swarf elliptical galaxy, discovered in 1994. It is about 80,000 light-years away from Earth, and 50,000 light-years away from the edge of our galaxy. |