A large-scale image of the Local Group of Galaxies, including the Milky Way and its satellites, and M31 and its satellites, and some other "nearby" galaxies which may or may not be members of the Local Group. The blue ovals and circles represent the position of the galaxies in the plane of the Milky Way, while the vertical lines show the position of each galaxy above or below that plane. Each spherical region is a million light years larger in radius (and therefore 2 million light years larger in diameter) than the sphere inside it, so the smallest sphere shows galaxies within a million light years of the Milky Way, almost all of which are satellites of our galaxy. All images are portions of a single image (Image Credit Wikimedia Commons, Antonio Ciccolella).