The Triangulum Galaxy, the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, is shining with star formation in a new image ...

The Local Group is a small cluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way. At least half of all galaxies in the Universe are thought to belong to similar groups. This authoritative volume provides a ...

Located about 3 million light-years from Earth, the Tucana Dwarf galaxy sits at the far edge of the Local Group of galaxies ...

Our Milky Way Galaxy is one of three large galaxies in the Local Group of Galaxies. The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd entry in Charles Messier's catalog ...

Andromeda and the Milky Way are the two biggest members of the Local Group, a small clutch of about 100 galaxies, most of which are much smaller and fainter. The next two largest are the ...

M33 is known to be a hotbed of star birth, forming stars at a rate 10 times higher than the average of its neighbor Andromeda ...

NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope has peered into a distant corner of the Local Group of galaxies and spotted an ancient ...

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The spiral galaxy Messier 33 (M33), also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, after the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and our own Milky Way.

Located about 3 million light-years from Earth, the Tucana Dwarf galaxy sits at the far edge of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes our Milky Way galaxy. This galaxy is home to older stars ...