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A cube 10,000,000 light years across will take in the Local Group of galaxies. Only three large spirals dominate the scene – the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy and its neighbour the Triangulum Galaxy. The smaller galaxies dotted around are dwarf and irregular ones. Numerous gravitational interactions between the galaxies of our local group have taken place during the last 12 or more billion years.