The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. The descriptive "milky" is derived from the appearance from Earth of the galaxy – a band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye. The term Milky Way is a translation of the Latin via lactea, from the Greek γαλαξίας...
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The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years (ly) from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It is catalogued as Messier33 or NGC598. The Triangulum Galaxy is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy. It is one of the most distant permanent objects...
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The Leo Triplet, or the M66 Group, is a group of interacting spiral galaxies located in the northern constellation Leo. The group consists of the galaxies Messier 65, Messier 66 and NGC 3628, also known as the Hamburger Galaxy. The Leo Triplet lies at an approximate distance of 35 million light years from Earth. The three large spiral galaxies...
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The Andromeda Galaxy , also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth, and the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. Its name stems from the area of the sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda. The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are expected to...
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One of, if not the most famous deep sky objects is Messier 31 - as known as the Andromeda galaxy. At the proximity of only 2.5 million light-years to the Earth it get the well-deserved title of the closest neighbor of our galaxy - the Milky Way. Located in the constellation bearing its own name - Andromeda, the spiral galaxy like ours is...
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The Andromeda Galaxy (M31, or NGC 224) is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth. It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. The Andromeda Galaxy spans approximately 220,000 light-years and is the largest galaxy in our Local Group of galaxies. The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are expected to collide in ~4.5...
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The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. The descriptive "milky" is derived...
The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years (ly) from Earth in...
The Leo Triplet, or the M66 Group, is a group of interacting spiral galaxies located in the...
The Andromeda Galaxy , also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy...
One of, if not the most famous deep sky objects is Messier 31 - as known as the Andromeda...
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31, or NGC 224) is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years...
