There are more than 30 other galaxies near the Milky Way alone. The largest of them is a Andromeda galaxy. Earlier it was known as Andromeda cloud because only a unclear 'cloudy' picture of it could be seen. But now with good telescopes, the individual stars can be observed. In 1780, a French astronomer, Charles Messier, prepared a catalogue with 110 such starry clusters and 'clouds' and he called it Andromeda M31. In 1888, a new catalogue was published called New General Catalogue (NGC), which included 8000 objects. It also included unusual galaxies like those which were deformed upon a collision with another or had lost one of their arms.
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