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The Local Group is the group
Galaxy groups and clusters

Galaxy groups and clusters are the largest gravitationally-bound objects to have arisen thus far in the process of cosmic structure formation....
 of galaxies
Galaxy

A galaxy is a massive, gravitation system that consists of stars and stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and cosmic dust, and an important but poorly-understood component tentatively dubbed dark matter....
 that includes our galaxy, the Milky Way
Milky Way

The Milky Way, sometimes called simply the Galaxy, is the galaxy in which the Solar System is located. It is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies....
. The group comprises over 50 galaxies (including dwarf galaxies), with its gravitational center located somewhere between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy
Andromeda Galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda . It is the nearest spiral galaxy to our own, the Milky Way Galaxy....
. The galaxies of the Local Group cover a 10 million light-year
Light-year

A light-year or light year is a Units of measurement of length, equal to just under ten orders_of_magnitude_%28numbers%29#1012 kilometres....
 diameter (see 1 E+22 m for distance comparisons) and have a binary (dumbbell) shape.






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The Local Group is the group
Galaxy groups and clusters

Galaxy groups and clusters are the largest gravitationally-bound objects to have arisen thus far in the process of cosmic structure formation....
 of galaxies
Galaxy

A galaxy is a massive, gravitation system that consists of stars and stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and cosmic dust, and an important but poorly-understood component tentatively dubbed dark matter....
 that includes our galaxy, the Milky Way
Milky Way

The Milky Way, sometimes called simply the Galaxy, is the galaxy in which the Solar System is located. It is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies....
. The group comprises over 50 galaxies (including dwarf galaxies), with its gravitational center located somewhere between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy
Andromeda Galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda . It is the nearest spiral galaxy to our own, the Milky Way Galaxy....
. The galaxies of the Local Group cover a 10 million light-year
Light-year

A light-year or light year is a Units of measurement of length, equal to just under ten orders_of_magnitude_%28numbers%29#1012 kilometres....
 diameter (see 1 E+22 m for distance comparisons) and have a binary (dumbbell) shape. The group is estimated to have a total mass of (1.29 ± 0.14)M?
Solar mass

The solar mass is a standard way to express mass in astronomy, used to describe the masses of other stars and galaxy. It is equal to the mass of the Sun, about two Names of large numbers kilograms or about 332,950 times the mass of the Earth, or 1,048 times the mass of Jupiter....
. The group itself is one of many within the Virgo Supercluster
Virgo Supercluster

The Virgo Supercluster or Local Supercluster is the irregular supercluster that contains the Local Group, which in turn contains the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy galaxies....
 (i.e. the Local Supercluster).

The two most massive members of the group are the Milky Way
Milky Way

The Milky Way, sometimes called simply the Galaxy, is the galaxy in which the Solar System is located. It is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies....
 and the Andromeda Galaxy
Andromeda Galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda . It is the nearest spiral galaxy to our own, the Milky Way Galaxy....
. These two Spiral Galaxies each have a system of satellite galaxies.
  • The Milky Way's satellite system
    Milky Way's satellite galaxies

    The Milky Way Galaxy has several smaller satellite galaxy, as part of the Milky Way galaxy subcluster. This subgroup is part of the local galaxy cluster, the Local Group....
     consists of Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy
    Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy

    The Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy is an elliptical loop-shaped satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy. The main cluster which, in 1994, was the first to be discovered, is roughly 10,000 light-years in diameter, and is currently about 70,000 light-years from Earth and travelling in a polar orbit at a distance of about 50,000 light-yea...
    , Large Magellanic Cloud
    Large Magellanic Cloud

    The Large Magellanic Cloud is a nearby galaxy, one thought to be a satellite galaxy of our own. At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs , the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way, with the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal and Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy lying closer to the center of the Milky Way....
    , Small Magellanic Cloud
    Small Magellanic Cloud

    The Small Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy. It contains several hundred million stars.Some speculate that the SMC was once a barred spiral galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat irregular galaxy....
    , Canis Major Dwarf
    Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy

    The Canis Major Dwarf galaxy is located in the same part of the sky as the constellation Canis Major. The galaxy contains a relatively high percentage of red giant stars, and is thought to contain an estimated one 1000000000 stars in all....
    , Ursa Minor Dwarf
    Ursa Minor Dwarf

    The Ursa Minor Dwarf dwarf elliptical galaxy was discovered by A.G. Wilson of the Lowell Observatory in 1954. It is part of the Ursa Minor constellation, and a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way....
    , Draco Dwarf
    Draco Dwarf

    The Draco Dwarf is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy which was discovered by Albert George Wilson of Lowell Observatory in 1954 on photographic plates of the National Geographic Society Palomar Observatory Sky Survey ....
    , Carina Dwarf
    Carina Dwarf

    The Carina Dwarf Spheroidal is a dwarf galaxy in the Carina constellation. It was discovered in 1977 with the UK Schmidt Telescope. The Carina Dwarf is receding from the Milky Way at 230 km/s and is a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way....
    , Sextans Dwarf, Sculptor Dwarf, Fornax Dwarf
    Fornax Dwarf

    The Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal is an elliptical dwarf galaxy in the constellation Fornax that was discovered in 1938 by Harlow Shapley. He discovered it while he was in South Africa on photographic plates taken by a 24 inch reflecting telescope at Boyden Observatory, shortly after he discovered the Sculptor Dwarf galaxy....
    , Leo I
    Leo I (dwarf galaxy)

    Leo I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the constellation Leo . At about 820,000 light-years distant, it is a member of the Local Group of galaxies and is thought to be one of the most distant satellites of the Milky Way galaxy....
    , Leo II
    Leo II (dwarf galaxy)

    Leo II is an dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 690,000 light-years away in the constellation Leo . As of October 2008 it is one of 24 known satellite galaxies of the Milky Way....
    , and Ursa Major Dwarf
    Ursa Major Dwarf

    Ursa Major I Dwarf is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy satellite galaxy the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery by Beth Willman et al. was announced in 2005....
    .
  • Andromeda's satellite system
    Andromeda's satellite galaxies

    The Andromeda Galaxy has Satellite galaxy just like the Milky Way Galaxy. Orbiting Andromeda are at least 14 dwarf galaxy. The brightest and largest of them all is Elliptical Galaxy M32 which can be seen with a backyard telescope....
     comprises M32, M110
    Messier 110

    Messier 110 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy that is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy. M110 contains some dust and hints of recent star formation, which is unusual for dwarf elliptical galaxies in general....
    , NGC 147
    NGC 147

    NGC 147 is a Dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.58 light-year away in the constellation Cassiopeia . NGC is a member of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy ....
    , NGC 185
    NGC 185

    NGC 185 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy about 1 E19 m light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia . NGC 185 is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy and was discovered by William Herschel on November 30, 1787....
    , And I
    Andromeda I

    Andromeda I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.40 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda . Andromeda I is part of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy ....
    , And II
    Andromeda II

    Andromeda II is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.22 light-year away in the constellation Andromeda . It is part of the Local group of galaxies and is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy but it's also situated closely to the Triangulum Galaxy , it is not quite clear if it is a satellite of the one or the other galaxy....
    , And III
    Andromeda III

    Andromeda III is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.44 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda . And III is part of the Local group of galaxies and is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy ....
    , And IV
    Andromeda IV

    Andromeda IV might be an Irregular galaxy Andromeda Galaxy's satellite galaxies of the Andromeda Galaxy, but is probably not a galaxy at all but just a loose star cluster or some background feature....
    , And V
    Andromeda V

    Andromeda V is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 1 E22 m light-year away in the constellation Andromeda ....
    , Pegasus dSph
    Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

    The Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 1 E22 m light-years away in the constellation Pegasus . The Pegasus Dwarf is a member of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy ....
    , Cassiopeia Dwarf
    Cassiopeia Dwarf

    The Cassiopeia Dwarf is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.58 light-year away in the constellation Cassiopeia . The Cassiopeia Dwarf is part of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy ....
    , And VIII
    Andromeda VIII

    Andromeda VIII is a galaxy discovered in August 2003. It is a companion galaxy to the Andromeda Galaxy, M31, and evaded detection for so long due to its diffuse nature....
    , And IX
    Andromeda IX

    Andromeda IX is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy Andromeda Galaxy's satellite galaxies of the Andromeda Galaxy, it was discovered in 2004 by resolved stellar photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey , by Zucker et al....
    , and And X.
  • The Triangulum Galaxy
    Triangulum Galaxy

    The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. The galaxy is also sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy by some amateur astronomy references...
    , the third largest and only ordinary spiral galaxy
    Spiral galaxy

    A spiral galaxy is a galaxy belonging to one of the three main galaxy morphological classification originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work ?The Realm of the Nebulae? and, as such, forms part of the Hubble sequence....
     in the Local Group, may or may not be a companion to the Andromeda galaxy but probably has Pisces Dwarf as a satellite.
The other members of the group are gravitationally secluded from these large subgroups: IC10
IC 10

IC 10 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia . It was discovered by Lewis A. Swift in 1887. Nicholas U. Mayall was the first to suggest that the object is extragalactic in 1935....
, IC1613
IC 1613

IC 1613 is an irregular galaxy and a dwarf galaxy in the Cetus constellation near 26 Ceti. It was discovered in 1906 by Max Wolf, and is approaching earth at 234 km/s....
, Phoenix Dwarf
Phoenix Dwarf

The Phoenix Dwarf is a dwarf galaxy and an irregular galaxy that was discovered in 1976 by Hans-Emil Schuster and Richard Martin West and mistaken for a globular cluster....
, Leo A
Leo A

Leo A is an irregular galaxy galaxy that is part of the Local Group. It lies 1 E22 m light-year from Earth....
, Tucana Dwarf
Tucana Dwarf

The Tucana Dwarf Galaxy is a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Tucana. It was discovered in 1990 by R.J. Lavrey of Mount Stromlo Observatory....
, Cetus Dwarf
Cetus Dwarf

Cetus Dwarf is an Dwarf spheroidal galaxy. It lies ~2.46 Million light-years from Earth. It is an isolated galaxy of Local Group. All of the easily visible stars in the galaxy are Red Giants...
, Pegasus Dwarf Irregular, Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte
Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte

The Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte galaxy is an irregular galaxy discovered in 1909 by Max Wolf, and is located on the outer edges of the local group. The discovery of the nature of the galaxy was accredited to Knut Lundmark and Philibert Jacques Melotte in 1926....
, Aquarius Dwarf
Aquarius Dwarf

The Aquarius Dwarf galaxy is a dwarf galaxy and an irregular galaxy, that was first catalogued in 1959 by the DDO survey. Its most distinctive characteristic is that it is one of the few galaxies known to display a blueshift, as it is traveling towards the Milky Way at 137 km/s....
, and Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular.

History

Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble

Edwin Powell Hubble was an United States Astronomy. He profoundly changed astronomers' understanding of the nature of the universe by demonstrating the existence of other galaxies besides the Milky Way....
 was the first to identify the Local Group in Chapter VI of his book The Realm of Nebulae (Hubble 1936, pp. 124–151). There he describes it as "a typical small group of nebulae which is isolated in the general field." In that book, he delineated by decreasing luminosity its members to be M31
Andromeda Galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda . It is the nearest spiral galaxy to our own, the Milky Way Galaxy....
, the Milky Way
Milky Way

The Milky Way, sometimes called simply the Galaxy, is the galaxy in which the Solar System is located. It is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies....
, M33
M33

M33 may refer to:* Triangulum Galaxy also known as Messier 33 or NGC 598, a galaxy in the Local Group* M-33 , a state highway in Michigan* M33 cluster bomb, a Cold War-era U.S....
, the Large Magellanic Cloud
Large Magellanic Cloud

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a nearby galaxy, one thought to be a satellite galaxy of our own. At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs , the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way, with the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal and Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy lying closer to the center of the Milky Way....
, the Small Magellanic Cloud
Small Magellanic Cloud

The Small Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy. It contains several hundred million stars.Some speculate that the SMC was once a barred spiral galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat irregular galaxy....
, M32
M32

M32 may refer to:* Messier 32 , an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda* M32 motorway, a motorway in Bristol, England* M-32 , a state highway traversing northern lower Michigan from the town of East Jordan, Michigan to the city of Alpena, Michigan...
, NGC 205, NGC 6822
NGC 6822

NGC 6822 is a barred irregular galaxy approximately 1.6 million light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius . Part of the Local Group of galaxies, it was discovered by E....
, NGC 185
NGC 185

NGC 185 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy about 1 E19 m light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia . NGC 185 is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy and was discovered by William Herschel on November 30, 1787....
, IC 1613
IC 1613

IC 1613 is an irregular galaxy and a dwarf galaxy in the Cetus constellation near 26 Ceti. It was discovered in 1906 by Max Wolf, and is approaching earth at 234 km/s....
 and NGC 147
NGC 147

NGC 147 is a Dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.58 light-year away in the constellation Cassiopeia . NGC is a member of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy ....
. He also identified IC 10
IC 10

IC 10 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia . It was discovered by Lewis A. Swift in 1887. Nicholas U. Mayall was the first to suggest that the object is extragalactic in 1935....
 as a possible Local Group member. In the ~70 years since his work, the number of known Local Group members has increased from his initial twelve to thirty-six as of 2003, by way of the discovery of almost two dozen low-luminosity galaxies.

Component galaxies


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Image:Local_Group.JPG|frame|center|Local group (clickable map)

circle 167 27 20 Sextans B
Sextans B

Sextans B is an irregular galaxy galaxy that is part of the Local Group. Sextans B lies 1 E22 m light-year from Earth, and thus Sextans B is one of most distant members of Local Group....
 circle 120 36 23 Sextans A
Sextans A

Sextans A , is a tiny dwarf galaxy irregular galaxy galaxy. It spans about 5000 light-years across, and is located within the Local Group of galaxies, which includes our Milky Way galaxy....
 circle 318 239 20 Milky Way
Milky Way

The Milky Way, sometimes called simply the Galaxy, is the galaxy in which the Solar System is located. It is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies....
 circle 289 197 16 Leo I (dwarf galaxy)
Leo I (dwarf galaxy)

Leo I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the constellation Leo . At about 820,000 light-years distant, it is a member of the Local Group of galaxies and is thought to be one of the most distant satellites of the Milky Way galaxy....
 circle 334 201 15 Canes Dwarf rect 303 185 318 215 Leo II (dwarf galaxy)
Leo II (dwarf galaxy)

Leo II is an dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 690,000 light-years away in the constellation Leo . As of October 2008 it is one of 24 known satellite galaxies of the Milky Way....
 circle 357 289 28 NGC 6822
NGC 6822

NGC 6822 is a barred irregular galaxy approximately 1.6 million light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius . Part of the Local Group of galaxies, it was discovered by E....
 circle 288 323 24 Phoenix Dwarf
Phoenix Dwarf

The Phoenix Dwarf is a dwarf galaxy and an irregular galaxy that was discovered in 1976 by Hans-Emil Schuster and Richard Martin West and mistaken for a globular cluster....
 circle 248 391 35 Tucana Dwarf
Tucana Dwarf

The Tucana Dwarf Galaxy is a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Tucana. It was discovered in 1990 by R.J. Lavrey of Mount Stromlo Observatory....
 circle 363 416 20 Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte
Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte

The Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte galaxy is an irregular galaxy discovered in 1909 by Max Wolf, and is located on the outer edges of the local group. The discovery of the nature of the galaxy was accredited to Knut Lundmark and Philibert Jacques Melotte in 1926....
 circle 363 383 17 Cetus Dwarf
Cetus Dwarf

Cetus Dwarf is an Dwarf spheroidal galaxy. It lies ~2.46 Million light-years from Earth. It is an isolated galaxy of Local Group. All of the easily visible stars in the galaxy are Red Giants...
 circle 369 346 11 IC 1613
IC 1613

IC 1613 is an irregular galaxy and a dwarf galaxy in the Cetus constellation near 26 Ceti. It was discovered in 1906 by Max Wolf, and is approaching earth at 234 km/s....
 rect 381 335 393 357 SagDIG rect 393 335 406 356 Aquarius Dwarf
Aquarius Dwarf

The Aquarius Dwarf galaxy is a dwarf galaxy and an irregular galaxy, that was first catalogued in 1959 by the DDO survey. Its most distinctive characteristic is that it is one of the few galaxies known to display a blueshift, as it is traveling towards the Milky Way at 137 km/s....
 circle 417 304 17 Triangulum Galaxy
Triangulum Galaxy

The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. The galaxy is also sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy by some amateur astronomy references...
 circle 417 254 15 NGC 185
NGC 185

NGC 185 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy about 1 E19 m light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia . NGC 185 is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy and was discovered by William Herschel on November 30, 1787....
 rect 432 237 447 260 NGC 147
NGC 147

NGC 147 is a Dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.58 light-year away in the constellation Cassiopeia . NGC is a member of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy ....
 circle 461 229 17 IC 10
IC 10

IC 10 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia . It was discovered by Lewis A. Swift in 1887. Nicholas U. Mayall was the first to suggest that the object is extragalactic in 1935....
 poly 440 282 455 260 511 259 493 285 Andromeda Galaxy
Andromeda Galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda . It is the nearest spiral galaxy to our own, the Milky Way Galaxy....
 poly 450 264 434 265 431 280 442 280 Messier 110
Messier 110

Messier 110 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy that is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy. M110 contains some dust and hints of recent star formation, which is unusual for dwarf elliptical galaxies in general....
 circle 295 110 20 Leo A
Leo A

Leo A is an irregular galaxy galaxy that is part of the Local Group. It lies 1 E22 m light-year from Earth....
 circle 84 128 20 NGC 3109
NGC 3109

NGC 3109 is a small barred spiral galaxy around 4.3 Mly away in the direction of the constellation of Hydra . It is the most prominent member of a Local Group subgroup....
 circle 109 149 14 Antlia Dwarf
Antlia Dwarf

Antlia Dwarf is a dwarf elliptical galaxy. It lies 4.3 Mly from Earth in the constellation Antlia. It is one of most distant members of the Local Group....
 circle 412 332 12 LGS 3 circle 460 361 21 Pegasus Dwarf circle 394 272 14 Andromeda II
Andromeda II

Andromeda II is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.22 light-year away in the constellation Andromeda . It is part of the Local group of galaxies and is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy but it's also situated closely to the Triangulum Galaxy , it is not quite clear if it is a satellite of the one or the other galaxy....
 rect 427 279 438 294 Andromeda III
Andromeda III

Andromeda III is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.44 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda . And III is part of the Local group of galaxies and is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy ....
 rect 438 282 450 294 Andromeda I
Andromeda I

Andromeda I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.40 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda . Andromeda I is part of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy ....


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Image:Satellite_Galaxies.JPG|frame|center|Milky Way's satellite galaxies
Milky Way's satellite galaxies

The Milky Way Galaxy has several smaller satellite galaxy, as part of the Milky Way galaxy subcluster. This subgroup is part of the local galaxy cluster, the Local Group....
 (clickable map)

rect 289 219 352 251 Milky Way
Milky Way

The Milky Way, sometimes called simply the Galaxy, is the galaxy in which the Solar System is located. It is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies....
 rect 319 252 380 281 Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy
Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy

The Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy is an elliptical loop-shaped satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy. The main cluster which, in 1994, was the first to be discovered, is roughly 10,000 light-years in diameter, and is currently about 70,000 light-years from Earth and travelling in a polar orbit at a distance of about 50,000 light-yea...
 rect 187 81 229 113 Sextans Dwarf rect 168 273 249 318 Large Magellanic Cloud
Large Magellanic Cloud

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a nearby galaxy, one thought to be a satellite galaxy of our own. At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs , the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way, with the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal and Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy lying closer to the center of the Milky Way....
 rect 229 326 288 368 Small Magellanic Cloud
Small Magellanic Cloud

The Small Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy. It contains several hundred million stars.Some speculate that the SMC was once a barred spiral galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat irregular galaxy....
 rect 297 376 352 407 Sculptor Dwarf rect 183 446 234 476 Fornax Dwarf
Fornax Dwarf

The Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal is an elliptical dwarf galaxy in the constellation Fornax that was discovered in 1938 by Harlow Shapley. He discovered it while he was in South Africa on photographic plates taken by a 24 inch reflecting telescope at Boyden Observatory, shortly after he discovered the Sculptor Dwarf galaxy....
 rect 107 297 150 332 Carina Dwarf
Carina Dwarf

The Carina Dwarf Spheroidal is a dwarf galaxy in the Carina constellation. It was discovered in 1977 with the UK Schmidt Telescope. The Carina Dwarf is receding from the Milky Way at 230 km/s and is a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way....
 rect 296 107 339 144 Bootes Dwarf rect 336 180 408 196 Ursa Major II rect 357 40 423 59 Ursa Major I rect 370 110 428 142 Ursa Minor Dwarf
Ursa Minor Dwarf

The Ursa Minor Dwarf dwarf elliptical galaxy was discovered by A.G. Wilson of the Lowell Observatory in 1954. It is part of the Ursa Minor constellation, and a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way....
 rect 430 119 470 154 Draco Dwarf
Draco Dwarf

The Draco Dwarf is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy which was discovered by Albert George Wilson of Lowell Observatory in 1954 on photographic plates of the National Geographic Society Palomar Observatory Sky Survey ....


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Galactic bodies

Spiral galaxies
Spiral galaxy

A spiral galaxy is a galaxy belonging to one of the three main galaxy morphological classification originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work ?The Realm of the Nebulae? and, as such, forms part of the Hubble sequence....
name type constellation notes
Milky Way
Milky Way

The Milky Way, sometimes called simply the Galaxy, is the galaxy in which the Solar System is located. It is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies....
 SBbc n/a Second largest, though possibly most massive galaxy in the group.
Andromeda Galaxy
Andromeda Galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda . It is the nearest spiral galaxy to our own, the Milky Way Galaxy....
 (M31, NGC 224)		 SA(s)b Andromeda
Andromeda (constellation)

Andromeda is a constellation in the northern sky. It is named after Andromeda , the princess of a mythological kingdom Ethiopia in Greek mythology....
 Largest member of the group, recently (2006) discovered to also be a barred spiral. May be less massive than the Milky Way.
Triangulum Galaxy
Triangulum Galaxy

The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. The galaxy is also sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy by some amateur astronomy references...
 (M33
Triangulum Galaxy

The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 3 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. The galaxy is also sometimes informally referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy by some amateur astronomy references...
, NGC 598)		 SAc Triangulum
Triangulum

Triangulum is a small constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for triangle, and it should not be confused with Triangulum Australe in the southern sky....
 only ordinary spiral galaxy and possible satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy?
Elliptical galaxies
Elliptical galaxy

An elliptical galaxy is a galaxy having an approximately ellipsoid shape and a smooth, nearly featureless brightness profile. They range in shape from nearly spherical to highly flattened and in size from hundreds of millions to over one trillion stars....
name type constellation notes
M110 (NGC 205) E6p Andromeda satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy
M32 (NGC 221) E2 Andromeda satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy
Irregular galaxies
Irregular galaxy

Some galaxies do not have a regular shape, like a spiral galaxy or an elliptical galaxy. Those galaxies are known as irregular galaxies. Their shape is uncommon....
name type constellation notes
Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte
Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte

The Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte galaxy is an irregular galaxy discovered in 1909 by Max Wolf, and is located on the outer edges of the local group. The discovery of the nature of the galaxy was accredited to Knut Lundmark and Philibert Jacques Melotte in 1926....
 (WLM
WLM

WLM may stand for:*Wellman, Inc.'s stock ticker WLM*Windows Live Hotmail, a free webmail service by Microsoft, briefly called Windows Live Mail during its beta stages...
, DDO 221)		 Ir+ Cetus
Cetus

Cetus is a constellation in the northern sky. Its name refers to Cetus , a sea monster in Greek mythology, although it is often called 'the whale' today....
 
IC 10
IC 10

IC 10 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia . It was discovered by Lewis A. Swift in 1887. Nicholas U. Mayall was the first to suggest that the object is extragalactic in 1935....
 KBm or Ir+ Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia (constellation)

Cassiopeia is a constellation in the northern sky. In Greek mythology it was considered to represent the vain queen Cassiopeia , who boasted about her unrivaled beauty....
 
Small Magellanic Cloud
Small Magellanic Cloud

The Small Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy. It contains several hundred million stars.Some speculate that the SMC was once a barred spiral galaxy that was disrupted by the Milky Way to become somewhat irregular galaxy....
 (SMC, NGC 292)		 SB(s)m pec Tucana
Tucana

Tucana...
 satellite of Milky Way
Canis Major Dwarf Irr Canis Major
Canis Major

File:CMa setting.jpgCanis Major is a constellation, included in the 1st century astronomer Ptolemy's 48 constellations, and still included among the 88 modern constellations....
 satellite of Milky Way
Pisces Dwarf
Pisces Dwarf

Pisces Dwarf is an irregular galaxy dwarf galaxy galaxy that is part of the Local Group. The galaxy is also suspected of being a satellite galaxy of the Triangulum Galaxy ....
 (LGS3)		 Irr Pisces
Pisces (constellation)

Pisces is a constellation of the zodiac. Its name is the Latin plural for fish, and its symbol is . It lies between Aquarius to the west and Aries to the east....
 satellite of the Triangulum Galaxy?
IC 1613
IC 1613

IC 1613 is an irregular galaxy and a dwarf galaxy in the Cetus constellation near 26 Ceti. It was discovered in 1906 by Max Wolf, and is approaching earth at 234 km/s....
 (UGC 668)		 IAB(s)m V Cetus 
Phoenix Dwarf
Phoenix Dwarf

The Phoenix Dwarf is a dwarf galaxy and an irregular galaxy that was discovered in 1976 by Hans-Emil Schuster and Richard Martin West and mistaken for a globular cluster....
 Irr Phoenix
Phoenix (constellation)

Phoenix is a minor constellation in the southern sky. It is named after the Phoenix , a mythical bird. It is faint; there are only two stars in the whole constellation which are brighter than magnitude 5.0....
 
Large Magellanic Cloud
Large Magellanic Cloud

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a nearby galaxy, one thought to be a satellite galaxy of our own. At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs , the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way, with the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal and Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy lying closer to the center of the Milky Way....
 (LMC)		 Irr/SB(s)m Dorado
Dorado

Dorado is a constellation in the southern sky, created in the sixteenth century and now one of the 88 modern constellations. Its name refers to the dolphinfish , which is known as dorado in Spanish, although it has also been depicted as a swordfish in the past....
 satellite of Milky Way
Leo A
Leo A

Leo A is an irregular galaxy galaxy that is part of the Local Group. It lies 1 E22 m light-year from Earth....
 (Leo III)		 IBm V Leo
Leo (constellation)

Leo is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Its name is Latin for lion. Its symbol is , a corruption of the initial letter of ?e?? . Leo lies between dim Cancer to the west and Virgo to the east....
 
Sextans B
Sextans B

Sextans B is an irregular galaxy galaxy that is part of the Local Group. Sextans B lies 1 E22 m light-year from Earth, and thus Sextans B is one of most distant members of Local Group....
 (UGC 5373)		 Ir+IV-V Sextans
Sextans

Sextans is a minor celestial equator constellation which was introduced in the 17th century by Johannes Hevelius. Its name is Latin for the sextant , an instrument that Hevelius made frequent use of in his observations....
 
NGC 3109
NGC 3109

NGC 3109 is a small barred spiral galaxy around 4.3 Mly away in the direction of the constellation of Hydra . It is the most prominent member of a Local Group subgroup....
 Ir+IV-V Hydra
Hydra (constellation)

Hydra is the largest of the 88 modern constellations, measuring 1303 square degrees. It has a long history, having been included among the 48 constellations listed by the 1st century astronomer Ptolemy....
 
Sextans A
Sextans A

Sextans A , is a tiny dwarf galaxy irregular galaxy galaxy. It spans about 5000 light-years across, and is located within the Local Group of galaxies, which includes our Milky Way galaxy....
 (UGCA 205)		 Ir+V Sextans 
Dwarf elliptical galaxies
Dwarf elliptical galaxy

Dwarf elliptical galaxies, or dE's, are elliptical galaxy that are much smaller than others. They are classified as dE, and are quite common in galaxy groups and clusters, and are usually companions to other galaxies....
name type constellation notes
NGC 147
NGC 147

NGC 147 is a Dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.58 light-year away in the constellation Cassiopeia . NGC is a member of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy ....
 (DDO 3)		 dE5 pec Cassiopeia satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy
SagDIG
Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy

The Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy or SagDIG is a dwarf galaxy in the constellation of Sagittarius . It lies about 3.4 million light-years away....
 (Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy
Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy

The Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy or SagDIG is a dwarf galaxy in the constellation of Sagittarius . It lies about 3.4 million light-years away....
)		 IB(s)m V Sagittarius
Sagittarius (constellation)

Sagittarius is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Its name is Latin for the archer, and its symbol is , a stylized arrow. Sagittarius is commonly represented as a centaur drawing a bow....
 Most remote from barycenter member thought to be in the Local Group.
NGC 6822
NGC 6822

NGC 6822 is a barred irregular galaxy approximately 1.6 million light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius . Part of the Local Group of galaxies, it was discovered by E....
 (Barnard's Galaxy)		 IB(s)m IV-V Sagittarius 
Pegasus Dwarf
Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy

The Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy is an irregular galaxy and a dwarf galaxy in the direction of the constellation Pegasus constellation. It was discovered by A.G....
 (Pegasus Dwarf Irregular, DDO 216)		 Irr Pegasus
Pegasus (constellation)

Pegasus is a constellation in the northern sky, named after the winged horse Pegasus in Greek mythology. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 1st century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains one of the 88 modern constellations....
 
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Dwarf spheroidal galaxy

Dwarf spheroidal galaxy is a technical term in astronomy applied to low luminosity galaxies that are companions to the Milky Way and to the similar systems that are companions to the Andromeda Galaxy....
name type constellation notes
Boötes Dwarf dSph Boötes
Boötes

Bo?tes Bo?tes was one of the 48 constellations described by the 1st century astronomer Ptolemy and is now one of the 88 modern constellations. It contains the List of brightest stars in the night sky, Arcturus....
 
Cetus Dwarf
Cetus Dwarf

Cetus Dwarf is an Dwarf spheroidal galaxy. It lies ~2.46 Million light-years from Earth. It is an isolated galaxy of Local Group. All of the easily visible stars in the galaxy are Red Giants...
 dSph/E4 Cetus 
Canes Venatici Dwarf dSph Canes Venatici
Canes Venatici

Canes Venatici is a small northern constellation that was created by Johannes Hevelius in the 17th century. Its name is Latin for hunting dogs and it represents the mythological dogs Chara and Asterion being held on a leash by Bo?tes the herdsman, a neighboring constellation....
 
Andromeda III
Andromeda III

Andromeda III is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.44 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda . And III is part of the Local group of galaxies and is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy ....
 dE2 Andromeda satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy
NGC 185
NGC 185

NGC 185 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy about 1 E19 m light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia . NGC 185 is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy and was discovered by William Herschel on November 30, 1787....
 dE3 pec Cassiopeia satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy
Andromeda I
Andromeda I

Andromeda I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.40 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda . Andromeda I is part of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy ....
 dE3 pec Andromeda satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy
Sculptor Dwarf
Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy

The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that is a satellite of the Milky Way. The galaxy lies within the constellation Sculptor ....
 (E351-G30)		 dE3 Sculptor
Sculptor (constellation)

Sculptor is a small and faint constellation in the southern sky. It represents a sculptor. It was introduced by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in the eighteenth century....
 satellite of Milky Way
Andromeda V
Andromeda V

Andromeda V is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 1 E22 m light-year away in the constellation Andromeda ....
 dSph Andromeda satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy
Andromeda II
Andromeda II

Andromeda II is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.22 light-year away in the constellation Andromeda . It is part of the Local group of galaxies and is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy but it's also situated closely to the Triangulum Galaxy , it is not quite clear if it is a satellite of the one or the other galaxy....
 dE0 Andromeda satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy
Fornax Dwarf
Fornax Dwarf

The Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal is an elliptical dwarf galaxy in the constellation Fornax that was discovered in 1938 by Harlow Shapley. He discovered it while he was in South Africa on photographic plates taken by a 24 inch reflecting telescope at Boyden Observatory, shortly after he discovered the Sculptor Dwarf galaxy....
 (E356-G04)		 dSph/E2 Fornax
Fornax

Fornax is a constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for furnace. It was created in the eighteenth century and is now one of the 88 modern constellations....
 satellite of Milky Way
Carina Dwarf
Carina Dwarf

The Carina Dwarf Spheroidal is a dwarf galaxy in the Carina constellation. It was discovered in 1977 with the UK Schmidt Telescope. The Carina Dwarf is receding from the Milky Way at 230 km/s and is a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way....
 (E206-G220)		 dE3 Carina
Carina (constellation)

Carina , is a constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for the keel of a ship, and it was formerly part of the larger constellation of Argo Navis until that constellation was divided in three....
 satellite of Milky Way
Antlia Dwarf
Antlia Dwarf

Antlia Dwarf is a dwarf elliptical galaxy. It lies 4.3 Mly from Earth in the constellation Antlia. It is one of most distant members of the Local Group....
 dE3 Antlia
Antlia

Antlia is a constellation in the southern sky. Its name means "pump" and it specifically represents an air pump. The stars comprising Antlia are faint, and the constellation was not created until the eighteenth century....
 
Leo I
Leo I (dwarf galaxy)

Leo I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the constellation Leo . At about 820,000 light-years distant, it is a member of the Local Group of galaxies and is thought to be one of the most distant satellites of the Milky Way galaxy....
 (DDO 74)		 dE3 Leo satellite of Milky Way
Sextans Dwarf dE3 Sextans satellite of Milky Way
Leo II
Leo II (dwarf galaxy)

Leo II is an dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 690,000 light-years away in the constellation Leo . As of October 2008 it is one of 24 known satellite galaxies of the Milky Way....
 (Leo B)		 dE0 pec Leo satellite of Milky Way
Ursa Minor Dwarf
Ursa Minor Dwarf

The Ursa Minor Dwarf dwarf elliptical galaxy was discovered by A.G. Wilson of the Lowell Observatory in 1954. It is part of the Ursa Minor constellation, and a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way....
 dE4 Ursa Minor
Ursa Minor

Ursa Minor is a constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for 'little bear', contrasting with Ursa Major, the Great Bear. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 1st century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains one of the 88 List of constellations....
 satellite of Milky Way
Draco Dwarf
Draco Dwarf

The Draco Dwarf is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy which was discovered by Albert George Wilson of Lowell Observatory in 1954 on photographic plates of the National Geographic Society Palomar Observatory Sky Survey ....
 (DDO 208)		 dE0 pec Draco
Draco (constellation)

Draco is a constellation in the far northern sky. Its name is Latin for dragon. Draco is circumpolar star for many observers in the northern hemisphere....
 satellite of Milky Way
SagDEG
Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy

The Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy is an elliptical loop-shaped satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy. The main cluster which, in 1994, was the first to be discovered, is roughly 10,000 light-years in diameter, and is currently about 70,000 light-years from Earth and travelling in a polar orbit at a distance of about 50,000 light-yea...
 (Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy
Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy

The Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy is an elliptical loop-shaped satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy. The main cluster which, in 1994, was the first to be discovered, is roughly 10,000 light-years in diameter, and is currently about 70,000 light-years from Earth and travelling in a polar orbit at a distance of about 50,000 light-yea...
)		 dSph/E7 Sagittarius satellite of Milky Way
Tucana Dwarf
Tucana Dwarf

The Tucana Dwarf Galaxy is a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Tucana. It was discovered in 1990 by R.J. Lavrey of Mount Stromlo Observatory....
 dE5 Tucana 
Cassiopeia Dwarf
Cassiopeia Dwarf

The Cassiopeia Dwarf is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.58 light-year away in the constellation Cassiopeia . The Cassiopeia Dwarf is part of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy ....
 (Andromeda VII)		 dSph Cassiopeia satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy
Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

The Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 1 E22 m light-years away in the constellation Pegasus . The Pegasus Dwarf is a member of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy ....
 (Andromeda VI)		 dSph Pegasus satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy
Ursa Major Dwarf
Ursa Major Dwarf

Ursa Major I Dwarf is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy satellite galaxy the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery by Beth Willman et al. was announced in 2005....
 dSph Ursa Major
Ursa Major

Ursa Major is a constellation visible throughout the year in most of the northern hemisphere. Its name means the Great Bear in Latin. It is dominated by the widely recognized asterism known as the Big Dipper or Plough, which is a useful pointer toward north, and which has mythological significance in numerous world cultures....
 satellite of Milky Way
Identification Unclear
name type constellation notes
Virgo Stellar Stream
Virgo Stellar Stream

The Virgo Stellar Stream is the proposed name for a stellar stream in the constellation of Virgo which was discovered in 2005. The stream is thought to be the remains of a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that is in the process of merging with the Milky Way....
 dSph (remnant)? Virgo
Virgo (constellation)

Virgo is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Its name is Latin for virgin, and its symbol is . Lying between Leo to the west and Libra to the east, it is the second largest constellation in the sky....
 In the process of merging with the Milky Way
Willman 1
Willman 1

Willman 1 or SDSS J1049+5103 is an extreme globular cluster or ultra low-mass dwarf galaxy. It is Galaxies named after people after Beth Willman of New York University, the lead author of a study based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data....
 dwarf Spherical galaxy or Globular cluster? Ursa Major 147,000 light-years away
Andromeda IV
Andromeda IV

Andromeda IV might be an Irregular galaxy Andromeda Galaxy's satellite galaxies of the Andromeda Galaxy, but is probably not a galaxy at all but just a loose star cluster or some background feature....
 Irr? Andromeda probably not a galaxy
UGC-A 86 (0355+66) Irr, dE or S0 Camelopardalis
Camelopardalis

Camelopardalis , from Greek language ?a????p??da???, is a large but faint constellation in the celestial sphere. Its name is Latin for giraffe. The constellation was first described by Jakob Bartsch in 1624, but was probably created earlier by Petrus Plancius....
 
UGC-A 92 (EGB0427+63) Irr or S0 Camelopardalis 
Probable non-members
name type constellation notes
GR 8 (DDO 155) Im V Virgo
Virgo (constellation)

Virgo is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Its name is Latin for virgin, and its symbol is . Lying between Leo to the west and Libra to the east, it is the second largest constellation in the sky....
 
IC 5152
IC 5152

IC 5152 is an irregular galaxy 5.8 million light years from Earth in the Indus constellation. It was discovered by Delisle Stewart in 1908. There is open question where it is outlying member of the Local Group....
 IAB(s)m IV Indus
Indus (constellation)

Indus is constellation in the southern sky. Created in the sixteenth century, it represents an Indian, a word that could refer at the time to any native of Asia or the Americas....
 
NGC 55
NGC 55

NGC 55 is a barred irregular galaxy located about 1 E22 m light-years away in the constellation Sculptor ....
 SB(s)m Sculptor
Sculptor (constellation)

Sculptor is a small and faint constellation in the southern sky. It represents a sculptor. It was introduced by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in the eighteenth century....
 
Aquarius Dwarf
Aquarius Dwarf

The Aquarius Dwarf galaxy is a dwarf galaxy and an irregular galaxy, that was first catalogued in 1959 by the DDO survey. Its most distinctive characteristic is that it is one of the few galaxies known to display a blueshift, as it is traveling towards the Milky Way at 137 km/s....
 (DDO 210)		 Im V Aquarius
Aquarius (constellation)

Aquarius Aquarius is one of the oldest of the recognized constellations along the zodiac . It is found in a region often called the Sea due to its profusion of constellations with watery associations such as Cetus the whale, Pisces the fish and Eridanus the river....
 
NGC 404
NGC 404

NGC 404 is a small galaxy visible in amateur telescopes near the star Mirach in the constellation Andromeda . It was discovered by William Herschel in 1784....
 E0 or SA(s)0- Andromeda 
NGC 1569
NGC 1569

New General Catalogue 1569 is a dwarf galaxy irregular galaxy in Camelopardalis. While this faint galaxy is not a popular amateur astronomy target, it is well studied by professional astronomers, who are interested in the history of star formation within the galaxy....
 Irp+ III-IV Camelopardalis 
NGC 1560 (IC 2062) Sd Camelopardalis 
Camelopardalis A Irr Camelopardalis 
Argo Dwarf Irr Carina 
2318-42 Irr Grus
Grus (constellation)

Grus is constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for the crane , a species of bird. It was introduced in the sixteenth century....
 
UKS 2323-326 Irr Sculptor 
UGC 9128 (DDO 187) Irp+ Boötes 
Palomar 12
Palomar 12

Palomar 12 is a globular cluster in the constellation Capricornus that belongs to the halo of the Milky Way galaxy. First discovered on the Palomar Survey Sky plates by Robert G....
 (Capricornus Dwarf)		  Capricornus a globular cluster
Globular cluster

A globular cluster is a sphere collection of stars that orbits a Galactic Center as a satellite. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity, which gives them their spherical shapes and relatively high stellar densities toward their centers....
 formerly classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy
Palomar 4
Palomar 4

Palomar 4 is a globular cluster of the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 1949 by Edwin Hubble and again in 1955 by A. G. Wilson. It is 356,000 light years away....
 (originally designated Ursa Major Dwarf
Ursa Major Dwarf

Ursa Major I Dwarf is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy satellite galaxy the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery by Beth Willman et al. was announced in 2005....
)		  Ursa Major a globular cluster formerly classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy
Sextans C   


Other notable objects

  • Smith's Cloud
    Smith's Cloud

    Smith's Cloud is a high velocity cloud of hydrogen gas located in the constellation Aquila at Galactic coordinates l = 39?, b = −13?....
     - High velocity cloud, between 32,000 and 49,000 light years from Earth, and 8000 light years from the disk of the Milky Way Galaxy.
  • HVC 127-41-330
    HVC 127-41-330

    HVC 127-41-330 is a high velocity cloud. The three numbers that compose its name indicate, respectively, the galactic longitude and latitude, and velocity towards Earth in km/s....
      - High velocity cloud, 2.3 million light-years from Earth


See also


  • Groups and clusters of galaxies
  • List of nearest galaxies
    List of nearest galaxies

    This list includes all known galaxies within 3.6 MegaParsecs of Earth. This region of space encompasses all of our Local Group and reaches out to about the centre of the two largest nearby galaxy clusters - the M81 group of galaxies and Centaurus A/M83 Groups....
  • List of galaxy clusters
    List of galaxy clusters

    This page lists some of the more interesting galaxy clusters and groups.Defining the limits of galaxy clusters is imprecise as many clusters are still forming....
  • Local Supercluster
    Virgo Supercluster

    The Virgo Supercluster or Local Supercluster is the irregular supercluster that contains the Local Group, which in turn contains the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy galaxies....
  • Andromeda's satellite galaxies
    Andromeda's satellite galaxies

    The Andromeda Galaxy has Satellite galaxy just like the Milky Way Galaxy. Orbiting Andromeda are at least 14 dwarf galaxy. The brightest and largest of them all is Elliptical Galaxy M32 which can be seen with a backyard telescope....
  • Milky Way's satellite galaxies
    Milky Way's satellite galaxies

    The Milky Way Galaxy has several smaller satellite galaxy, as part of the Milky Way galaxy subcluster. This subgroup is part of the local galaxy cluster, the Local Group....


External links

  • , SEDS Messier pages
  • , Lowell Observatory