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In astronomy, cluster of over 30 galaxies that includes our own, the Milky Way. Like other groups of galaxies, the Local Group is held together by the gravitational attraction between its members, and does not expand with the expanding universe. Its two largest galaxies are the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy; most of the others are small and faint.



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In tracing the orbit backwards in time, it is clear that the universe just is not old enough for Andromeda XII to have been ejected from the Local Group of galaxies, gone out, and be on its way back in," notes Lewis.
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onward out of the Milky Way Galaxy, through our local group of galaxies, and even further to the Virgo Supercluster.
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Three years ago, Lauer and Marc Postman of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore set out to examine in greater detail the notion that a Great Attractor or some other concentration of mass was tugging on galaxies in the so-called local group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way.
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