Map of the Universe
Local Group
A view about 10 million light-years across · Milky Way
The Local Group: the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, the Triangulum Galaxy and dozens of dwarf galaxies bound together by gravity. Andromeda is 2.5 million light-years away and approaching.
On the map at this scale
Galaxies
- Andromeda Galaxy
- Andromeda I
- Andromeda II
- Andromeda III
- Andromeda V
- Andromeda VI
- Andromeda VII
- Andromeda XVIII
- Andromeda XXXVI
- Antlia B
- IC 10
- IC 1613
- Leo A
- LGS 3
- NGC 147
- NGC 185
- NGC 205
- NGC 300
- NGC 3109
- NGC 55
- NGC 6822
- Pegasus V
- Pisces VII
- Sextans A
- Sextans B
- Triangulum Galaxy
- UGC 4879
Galaxy groups, clusters and superclusters
Every scale, from Earth outwards
- Earth and Moon 0.008 AU
- Inner planets 4 AU
- Jupiter's orbit 14 AU
- Neptune and the Kuiper belt 110 AU
- Heliopause and Voyagers 400 AU
- Oort cloud 4 light-years
- Nearest stars 24 light-years
- 100 light-years 220 light-years
- 1,000 light-years 2,400 light-years
- Local Arm 12,000 light-years
- Galactic centre 13,000 light-years
- Milky Way 160,000 light-years
- Magellanic Clouds 520,000 light-years
- Satellite galaxies 2 million light-years
- Local Group 10 million light-years
- Council of Giants 36 million light-years
- Virgo Supercluster 230 million light-years
- Laniakea 850 million light-years
- Nearby superclusters 2.3 billion light-years
- Cosmic web 11 billion light-years
- Observable universe 100 billion light-years