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Add new Web site: Harvard and Smithsonian - Center for Astrophysics - The Local Group as a Time Machine. Dec 28, 2024
Add new Web site: IOPscience - The Astrophysical Journal Letters - The Undiscovered Ultradiffuse Galaxies of the Local Group. Oct 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Federal University of Minas Gerais - Institute of Exact Sciences - Department of Physics - The Local Group of galaxies. Sep 06, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Maryland - Department of Astronomy - Local Group. Jul 10, 2024
Add new Web site: Federal University of Minas Gerais - Institute of Exact Sciences - Department of Physics - The Local Group of galaxies. Jan 19, 2024
Add new Web site: COSMOS - Local Group. Nov 24, 2023
Add new Web site: Sky & Telescope - Meet the Shy Side of the Local Group. Apr 12, 2023
Add new Web site: NASA - Imagine the Universe! - The Local Group. Oct 13, 2016
Media added. Sep 08, 2009
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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