Topic summary
Council of Giants
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Local Sheet.
The so-called Council of Giants is a ring of twelve large galaxies surrounding the Local Group in the Local Sheet, with a radius of 3.746 Mpc (12.22 Mly) and its center located at 810 kpc (2.6 Mly) away from the Sun. Ten of these are spirals, while the remaining two are ellipticals. The two ellipticals (Maffei 1 and Centaurus A) lie on opposite sides of the Local Group.