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| hypergalaxy comparison table | |||||||||||
| Subject | has purpose | has apparent dimension | is part of | has catalog | is an instance of | has apparent magnitude | has synonym | has image | has definition | has NED data | has Messier number |
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| Andromeda galaxy | originally to catalog all objects which could be confused with a comet | celestial sphere | Messier catalog | Messier object | M 31 |  | The largest member of the local group. It is a giant spiral galaxy that lies 2.4 million light-years away. | ||||
| Milky Way | Local Group | galaxy catalog | hypergalaxy | A softly glowing band of light that bisects the skies of Earth, produced by light from stars and nebulae in the galactic disk. |
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