The Ladder of Scale · structure
Local Group
Group · 10 million ly
- Coordinates
- origin — we are inside it
- RA (deg)
- 0
- Dec (deg)
- 0
- Within
- Local Sheet
- Recognised
- 1936
- Population
- ~80 galaxies, 3 of them spirals
- Size (ly)
- 10000000
- Kind
- Group
Notes
Everything gravitationally bound to us: the Milky Way, Andromeda, Triangulum and a swarm of dwarfs. Named by Hubble. It is falling toward Virgo at about 600 km/s.
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