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From the September 2003 issue

Zoom through the Local Group

Get to know our Local Group with the help of a few good web sites.
By Richard Talcott | Published: September 2, 2003
This interactive map by astrophysicist Richard Powell allows you to zoom in and out of our Local Group of galaxies.

View a detailed list of galaxies that belong to our Local Group, from the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED).

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