The Local Group, containing approximately 85 gravitationally bound galaxies within ~10 million light-years, offers a unique opportunity to study galaxy evolution in detail, including interactions ...

Edwin Hubble initially identified approximately 11-12 galaxies within the Local Group, a term he coined, while current estimations place the number of members at 125 or more. The Local Group's total ...

A high-resolution colour image showing the central galaxies NGC5713 and NGC5719 taken by the Hyper Suprime-Cam at the Subaru telescope in Hawaii. A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as ...

The largest and brightest region of star formation in the Local Group of galaxies, including the Milky Way, is called 30 Doradus (or, informally, the Tarantula Nebula). Located in the Large Magellanic ...

A galaxy cluster over 6 billion light years away. Peering back in time to when the universe was younger than the Earth is now, the images span the period from around twelve billion years ago until one ...

Image of the irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A, located at a distance of about 4 million light years from us, towards the edge of the Local Group, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), an Italian ...