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Around 80 galaxies. Two of them count; the rest are dwarfs.
A gravitationally bound clump, which means it is not expanding with the rest of the universe. The Local Group will still be here when everything outside it has receded out of sight.
Seen from above, which nobody has ever done. This is a reconstruction. We have never photographed our own galaxy from outside and never will. Every picture of the Milky Way from above is drawn from…