• The Council of Giants 6.9.25 • Though it has long been known that the Milky Way and its orbiting companion Andromeda are the dominant members of a small group of galaxies, the Local Group, which is about three million light years across, much less was known about our immediate neighbourhood in the universe. In a paper by York University physics and astronomy Professor Marshall McCall (link below), maps out bright galaxies within 35-million light years of the Earth, offering up an expanded pict

• M33 • Triangulum Galaxy Shows Stunning Face in Detailed Portrait - Panoramic image displays nearly 25 million stars. 8.9.2020 VIDEO: Fly across the local galactic neighborhood to the Triangulum galaxy (M33), a smaller spiral than our Milky Way galaxy. Zoom in first on one of M33's bright regions of star birth, nebula NGC 604, glowing with hot ionized hydrogen gas. The remarkable ability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to resolve millions of individual stars is on display in this pan across M3

A journey to the Local Group (Milky Way, LMC & SMC, Andromeda galaxy, M110, M32 and M33)