Our Cosmic Neighborhood: Welcome to the Local Group We don’t live in isolation. Our Milky Way belongs to a modest but tightly bound family of galaxies called the Local Group — a bustling collection of more than 80 galaxies held together by gravity, sprawled across about 10 million light-years of space.While most members are tiny dwarf galaxies — faint, sparse swarms of stars — three giants dominate the family portrait: Our own Milky Way,
the majestic Andromeda Galaxy (M31),
and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33).
Orbiting our galaxy like loyal companions are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two striking dwarf galaxies visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere. They lie just 160,000 and 200,000 light-years away — practically next door in cosmic terms — and are slowly being pulled apart by the Milky Way’s gravity as they orbit us.A bit farther out, at 2.5 million light-years, looms Andromeda, the nearest large spiral galaxy to our own. It’s already on a collision course with the Milky Way. In roughly 4.5 billion years, the two will merge in a spectacular cosmic dance, birthing an entirely new galaxy.Think about this: when you gaze at Andromeda on a dark night, the light entering your eyes left that galaxy before Homo sapiens even existed. That faint smudge of light has been traveling across intergalactic space for two and a half million https://t.co/1J13kmhaKT the unimaginable emptiness of the universe, the Local Group is our small, cozy corner — a gathering of starry islands drifting together through the cosmic ocean, bound by gravity, sharing a common future, and reminding us just how connected we truly are.
Russia spent around $14.2 billion in 2018, Qatar spent around $220 billion, and the US, Mexico, and Canada together have spent around $20 billion on the FIFA World Cup.
No doubt Qatar is the GOAT when it comes to being a host.