Andromeda Group
Overview
The Andromeda Group is a galaxy group that includes Andromeda (NGC 224), Galaxia Linda (NGC 0) and the Triangulum Galaxy (NGC 598, the Calmarendian name for which is locally undefined), as well as dozens more lesser galaxies.
Facts and Figures
Etymology
Named after the most prominent member of the group, the Andromeda Galaxy. NGC 224 is known as Andromeda on both Earth and Calmarendi — one more of those unexplained “coincidences”.
Previous or Alternative Name(s)
Tellurians, rather unimaginatively, refer to the Andromeda Group merely as the “Local Group”.
Population
Calmarendian astronomers have identified around 105 individual galaxies in the Andromeda Group. Some members of the group that have been identified by Tellurian astronomers are not included in this number because of the limitations of Calmarendian technology but it does include some others which are not observable from Earth because they are obscured by the central core of the Galaxia Linda.
Location
Alongside our own Celestial Adjacency, the Andromeda Group lies within but close to the edge of the Laniakea Supercluster.
Localized Phenomena
Andromeda and Galaxia Linda are moving towards one another. They are destined, at some point in the distant future, to collide and then, eventually, coalesce into a single entity.
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