What Is the Local Group

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Multiple Choice

What is the Local Group?

• A) the stars that occupy the same spiral arm as the Sun
• B) a cluster of about 40 galaxies, of which the Milky Way is one
• C) a group of galaxies clustered around the Andromeda Galaxy M31, apparently gravitationally bound to it but separate from the Milky Way
• D) a group of about 100 stars within 20 ly of the Sun that appear to have been formed at about the same time from similar material

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