#local group

NGC 253

Just 10 million light years away from our own galaxy, in the constellation of Sculptor, this spiral galaxy 70,000 light years across is also the closest starburst galaxies to us.

A starburst galaxy has a huge amount of star formation occurring, and you can see in the image above, the large amount of blue within the disk, representing the blue light of large blue young stars.

As a result, it's also one of the brightest spiral galaxies in our sky, although despite it's relatively nearby location, it is not part of our local group of galaxies, rather belonging to our neighboring group the Sculptor group.

NGC 55 (N55) is at the outer edge between our group and it's own, at just 5 million light years.

It's also home to a supermassive black hole slightly larger than our SagA* and significantly more active.

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