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  • proper noun astronomy the small cluster of galaxies that contains the Milky Way Galaxy; includes Andromeda, Triangulum, the Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud and others

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  • For example, the Milky Way and Andromeda are the two biggest galaxies in what we call the Local Group, this little neck of the woods of the universe.

    Museum Blogs 2009

  • The Milky Way is bound by gravity—along with around thirty-five galaxies, including Andromeda and the Large and Small Magellanic clouds—in a cluster; ours is called the Local Group.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • The Milky Way is bound by gravity—along with around thirty-five galaxies, including Andromeda and the Large and Small Magellanic clouds—in a cluster; ours is called the Local Group.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • The Milky Way is bound by gravity—along with around thirty-five galaxies, including Andromeda and the Large and Small Magellanic clouds—in a cluster; ours is called the Local Group.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • The Milky Way is bound by gravity—along with around thirty-five galaxies, including Andromeda and the Large and Small Magellanic clouds—in a cluster; ours is called the Local Group.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are the dominant structures in a galaxy cluster called the Local Group which is, in turn, an outlying member of the Virgo supercluster.

    Clipmarks | Live Clips 2009

  • The Milky Way orbits within our Local Group, which is being pulled by the gravity of the massive Virgo Cluster.

    DCist Heather Goss 2010

  • The time taken from one maximum brightness to the next one is called the Local Group) had a relationship between their period and their apparent brightness.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • The Local Group is one of around one hundred galaxy clusters gathered by gravity but not bound together and strung like beads into the Virgo Supercluster.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

  • The Local Group is one of around one hundred galaxy clusters gathered by gravity but not bound together and strung like beads into the Virgo Supercluster.

    A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010

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