The Ladder of Scale · structure
Local Volume
Group · 33 million ly
- Coordinates
- origin — we are inside it
- RA (deg)
- 0
- Dec (deg)
- 0
- Within
- Local Supercluster (Virgo)
- Population
- ~600 known galaxies
- Size (ly)
- 33000000
- Kind
- Group
Notes
The observational sphere of about 10 megaparsecs in which individual galaxies can be resolved into stars, which makes it the region where distances are measured rather than inferred.
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