Editing Local Group (section)

== History ==

The term "The Local Group" was introduced by [[Edwin Hubble]] in Chapter VI of his 1936 book ''The Realm of the Nebulae''.<ref name="Hubble-1936">{{Cite book |last=Hubble |first=E.P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kgiXdDGLpFUC |title=The realm of the nebulae |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=1936 |isbn=9780300025002 |series=Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures, 25 |location=New Haven |oclc=611263346 |author-link=Edwin Hubble }} [https://archive.org/details/TheRealmOfTheNebulae Alt URL](pp.&nbsp;124–151)</ref> There, he described it as "a typical small group of nebulae which is isolated in the general field" and delineated, by decreasing luminosity, its members to be [[Andromeda Galaxy|M31]], [[Milky Way]], [[Triangulum Galaxy|M33]], [[Large Magellanic Cloud]], [[Small Magellanic Cloud]], [[Messier 32|M32]], [[NGC 205]], [[NGC 6822]], [[NGC 185]], [[IC 1613]] and [[NGC 147]]. He also identified [[IC 10]] as a possible part of the Local Group.