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American astronomer Edwin Hubble (after whom the Hubble Space Telescope is named) coined the term “Local Group” for the galaxies he had identified as moving through space with the Milky Way. The term ...
Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) located in the Atacama desert region of Northern Chile, astronomers have revealed five ...