{{In popular culture|date=April 2018}}
[[Galaxy|Galaxies]] other than the [[Milky Way]] are popular settings for creators of [[science fiction]], particularly those working with broad-scale [[space opera]] settings. Among the most common settings are the [[Andromeda Galaxy]], the [[Magellanic Clouds]], and the [[Triangulum Galaxy]], all part of the [[Local Group]] close to the Milky Way, and in the cases of Andromeda and Triangulum the Local Group's two largest other galaxies. The difficulties involved in crossing the immense distances between galaxies are often overlooked in this type of science fiction.{{or|date=April 2018}}
==M31 (Andromeda Galaxy)==
[[File:Andromeda galaxy.jpg|right|thumb|270px|Andromeda Galaxy, a [[spiral galaxy]] in the [[Local Group]], imaged in ultraviolet light]]
The [[Andromeda Galaxy]] has appeared in a number of [[science fiction]] works, as a source of [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]] life forms that invade the [[Milky Way]] galaxy, or as a setting for [[Planets in science fiction|alien worlds]] and territories. Examples include the following:
===Literature===
* The novel ''[[Andromeda (novel)|Andromeda Nebula]]'' by [[Ivan Yefremov]] is named after the Andromeda Galaxy, even though the galaxy itself is only mentioned once, towards the end of the book.
* Much of the fighting in the [[Revelation Space universe]] by [[Alastair Reynolds]] is caused by one race attempting to prepare the Milky Way for the impending collision with Andromeda, and attempting to wipe out any other race (including humanity) to prevent them interfering.
* The Andromeda Galaxy plays an important role in the German [[space opera]] ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'', from the third cycle on.
===Comics===
* In ''[[Superman: Birthright]]'', writer [[Mark Waid]] describes [[Krypton (comics)|Krypton]] as a megagravity planet circling an [[Stellar Classification#Class M|M3 star]] in the Andromeda Galaxy.
* In [[Marvel Comics]], the [[Skrull]] empire consists mainly of "about a thousand worlds" in the Andromeda galaxy. The [[Nova Corps]] of [[Xandar]], and the [[Symbiote (comics)|Symbiotes]] of [[Klyntar]] are also from the Andromeda galaxy.
* In [[Schlock Mercenary]], the Fleetmind Artificial Intelligence character known as [[List of Schlock Mercenary characters#Post-Dated Check Loan .28or .22Petey.22.29|Petey]] (also P.D., Post-Dated Check Loan, Sword of Inevitable Justice, The Rogue) is currently prosecuting a war against the [[List of Schlock Mercenary characters#Paan.27uri|Paan'uri]] in their home galaxy of Andromeda.
===Film and television===
* In the 1961 [[BBC]] television series ''[[A for Andromeda]]'', co-authored by astronomer [[Fred Hoyle]], a radio signal is received from the direction of the Andromeda Galaxy. The signal contained instructions for building a super-computer, as well as the code needed to make it run. A year later the sequel series ''[[The Andromeda Breakthrough]]'' was released.
* In ''[[The Galaxy Being]]'', the debut episode of ''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)]]'', an engineer for a small radio station somehow makes contact with a peaceful alien creature from the Andromeda Galaxy, who gets transported to Earth by accident.
* In the 1968 [[Star Trek: The Original Series|''Star Trek'']] episode "[[By Any Other Name]]", the starship [[Starship Enterprise|''Enterprise'']] is hijacked by Kelvans, aliens from an empire spanning the Andromeda Galaxy; their home galaxy was approaching an uninhabitable state and thus they aimed to conquer our own. In another episode, [[I, Mudd]], the lead android says their creators were humanoids from "Andromeda".
* The second season of the 1970s [[anime]] series ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]'' (known as ''Star Blazers'' to Western audiences) featured the Comet Empire, a massive empire contained in an artificial comet, which sought to conquer Earth after having enslaved the entire Andromeda Galaxy.
* In [[Gene Roddenberry]]'s [[Andromeda (TV series)|''Andromeda'']], the [[Systems Commonwealth]] had territory in the Andromeda Galaxy, the [[Triangulum Galaxy]] and the [[Milky Way Galaxy|Milky Way]].
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episodes:
**''[[The Ark in Space]]'' — Star Pioneers from Earth reached Andromeda where they fought a war with the [[List of Doctor Who monsters and aliens#Wirrn|Wirrn]].
**''[[Evolution (Doctor Who)|Evolution]]'' (novel) — The Doctor takes a group of humans who have mutated into [[mermaid]]s to live on a water planet in the Andromeda Galaxy.
* In [[List of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes#7. You're No Fun Anymore|the seventh episode in the first series]] of the British comedy sketch show ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', [[blancmange]]s from the planet Skyron in the Andromeda galaxy were a major [[plot point]]. For instance, they are seen to convert people into [[Stereotype|stereotypical]] [[Scottish People|Scotsmen]] in order to win the [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]] [[tennis]] [[tournament]], as it was well known that the Scots cannot play tennis (!).
* In the ''[[Renkin 3-kyū Magical? Pokān]]'' episode "The Spell of Dreams is Magic That Lasts One Day," Aiko has Uma use the magical Happy Chalk to draw a galactic train that could take them to the Andromeda Galaxy as one of Aiko's attempts to gain a human body since she has heard about something like this happening there before. Uma draws up the galactic train and they end up riding it to the Andromeda Galaxy even getting there faster when Uma drew a turbo boose enough for a trip due to the effects of the Happy Chalk lasting until the end of the day's first use. Upon landing on a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy, Uma, Pachira, Liru, and Aiko head to the area near Andromeda Tanashi where a robot would gain a real body or vice versa. It turns out that it takes a full day in order for the body changing to occur. The princesses leave and Aiko now knows that what she heard about the Andromeda Galaxy was true all along.
* The ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' films take place primarily in the Andromeda Galaxy.
===Games===
* In the ''[[Star Fleet Universe]]'' games, the [[Andromedan Invaders (Star Fleet Universe)|Andromedans]] (who may or may not have been Kelvans; see ''Star Trek'' above) launch a devastating [[Andromedan invasion|war]] on the Milky Way, using the [[Lesser Magellanic Cloud]] as a stepping-stone.
* In the [[Sega]] video game series ''[[Phantasy Star]]'', the instruction booklet of the first game states that the [[Algol (Phantasy Star)|Algol Solar System]] is located deep in the Andromeda Galaxy (while the real [[Algol]] is only about 90 light years away from us)
* In ''[[Star Trek Online]]'', the alien race known as the Iconians are revealed to have a [[Contagion (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|Gateway network]] and a [[Dyson Sphere]] in the Andromeda Galaxy, which is where they have been hiding since fleeing their homeworld in the Milky Way. Once their invasion of the Milky Way begins, the sphere teleports itself there.
* In ''[[Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction]]'', the five Andromeda aliens (listed above) are playable forms for Ben as Water Hazard, Terraspin, NRG, Armodrillo, and AmpFibian.
* In the ''[[Space Quest]]'' series, there are recurring characters, who are the alter egos of the creators, called the Two Guys from Andromeda.
* In ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]'', the Andromeda Galaxy is referenced when a message regarding the "closing" of the [[Milky Way Galaxy]] server is issued to all Eternal Sphere players. Due to the player party's emergence into 4D space from the Milky Way server of the Eternal Sphere [[Massively multiplayer online game|MMO]], all current players in that server are advised to relocate to the Andromeda server, which houses its titular galaxy.
* ''[[Mass Effect: Andromeda]] (2017),'' a video game developed by [[BioWare|BioWare Montreal]] and published by [[Electronic Arts]]. The game is a spin off of the original Mass Effect trilogy, set 600 years following the events of Mass Effect 2. In the game, each race participating in the initiative sends a large ship, called an Ark, on a 600-year voyage to Andromeda. Each ship contains the races' best and brightest volunteers, suspended in [[Suspended animation|cryosleep]]. The player takes control of one of the customizable Ryder twins and becomes the "Pathfinder", responsible for making decisions in how the humans will settle the new galaxy, and how humanity will help find the other races' missing arks.
===Music===
* The Andromeda galaxy has also featured heavily in the central theme of [[Enigma (German band)|Enigma]]'s sixth album [[A Posteriori]], in which a collision involving the Milky Way is prophesied to occur in the distant future. The most explicit reference to this appears at the album's close with a doom-laden yet mysterious statement, suggesting a collision of the galaxies will give rise to a "new, gigantic cosmic world" being born.
* M31 appears in the song "Out of the White Hole" of the album ''[[Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator]]'' by [[Ayreon]].
* In the story of the ship named Iron Savior, as told by the band [[Iron Savior]], in the Andromeda Galaxy there is a region of space called the Realm Of Steel, with a Machine World at its center. Both the Realm Of Steel and the Machine World are feared by the rest of the galaxy.
==Large Magellanic Cloud==
* In the comedy film ''[[My Stepmother Is an Alien]]'' (1988), the Clouds of Megallan is a galaxy 92 [[light-year]]s from [[Earth]], and the home world of the alien Celeste Martin.
* In [[Olaf Stapledon]]'s 1937 science fiction novel ''[[Star Maker]]'', there is a group of aliens that live in the [[Large Magellanic Cloud]] called the ''Symbiotics'', a super-intelligent symbiotic race composed of [[Telepathy|telepathically linked]] [[arachnid|arachnoid]] beings and [[whale]]-like [[Ichthyofauna|ichthyoid]] beings. The "Symbiotics" are the most advanced [[Extraterrestrial life|intelligent life]] in the [[Milky Way Galaxy]] and its satellite galaxies. The reason is because they combine the manipulative [[tool]]-using intelligence of the arachnoids with the contemplative [[Meditation|meditative]] and [[mathematical]] [[Whale intelligence|intelligence of the ichthyoids]]. The "Symbiotics" travel in starships equipped with tanks of water for the ichthyoids and piloted by the arachnoids. They conduct vast [[terraforming]] projects, terraforming planets in numerous different [[planetary system]]s. They also construct large artificial planetoids, hollow spheres filled with water inhabited on the inside by the icthyoids and on the surface by the arachnoids. They have the most advanced and powerful telepathic powers of any race in our galaxy and its satellites and are thus able to stop the ''War of Galactic Empires'' within the Milky Way Galaxy by telepathically attacking the military forces of the various Galactic Empires and causing them to have doubts about [[imperialism]]. This causes the various Imperial military forces to become totally disorganized. The Galaxy is led into a new era of galactic peace supervised by the democratic and communistic ''Galactic Community of Worlds'', which emerges after the fall of the Galactic Empires.
[[File:large.mc.arp.750pix.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The [[Large Magellanic Cloud]]]]
* The Large Magellanic Cloud is the destination of the spacecraft ''[[Space Battleship Yamato (fictional spacecraft)|Yamato]]'' in the first season of the 1970s [[anime]] series ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]'' (known as ''Space Cruiser Yamato'' or ''Star Blazers'' to Western audiences). The LMC is the host galaxy for the destination, Iscandar, and the home planet of the alien force attacking Earth, Gamilas. The ''Yamato'' must use an untested [[faster-than-light]] drive to make the 296,000 [[light year]] round trip in one Earth year. (Note: in the 1974 original, the one-way distance was given as 148,000 LY; in the reimagined [[Space Battleship Yamato 2199]], this is corrected to 168,000 LY to reflect more-recent measurements.)
* In [[Scientology]], these are said to be literal clouds. They are involved in the fictional story of [[Helatrobus]].
* In Marvel Comics, the Large Magellanic Cloud is home to the [[Kree]] empire''Silver Surfer'' Vol. 3 #4 (October, 1987) but its territory may extend into other galaxies.
* In [[Arthur C Clarke]]'s novel ''[[Rendezvous with Rama]]'', the giant spaceship Rama is at the end directed towards the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its journey through the solar system was apparently just to use the [[Sun]] to refuel and as a gravitational slingshot.
* In ''[[The Forever War]]'', a 1974 science fiction novel by [[Joe Haldeman]], a significant battle takes place on a 'collapsar' portal planet in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
* In [[James Blish]]'s series ''[[Cities in Flight]]'', hero John Amalfi and the New Earth planet escape to the Greater Magellenic Cloud to avoid unjust prosecution for an atrocity.
* In the [[Robert Silverberg]] novel ''Collision Course'', a wayward space ship trying to fly back to Earth gets lost in "null-space" and ends up emerging into normal space within the Large Magellanic Cloud; the captain suggests they find a permanent home there as their chances of getting home are extremely remote and they are fortunate to have dropped into normal space within a galaxy. Ultimately, they are returned to the Milky Way by sympathetic, superior aliens. The Milky Way galaxy is easily visible, evoking a feeling of loneliness and separation when the crew realize they're looking at their home galaxy.
* In the game ''[[Infinite Space]]'', the main character flees to the Large Magellanic Cloud after the civilizations of the Small Magellanic Cloud are taken over by an invading empire. Most of the second half of the game is spent in this galaxy.
* In the ''[[Deadlands: Lost Colony]]'' roleplaying game, the Faraway system is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
* In ''[[Halo (series)|Halo]]'', the parasitic [[Flood (Halo)|Flood]] was said to have come from Large Magellanic Cloud on ancient cargo ships. In the novel ''[[Halo: Silentium]]'', [[Forerunners (Halo)|Forerunners]] (who called it "''Path Kethona''") were revealed to have chased the surviving Precursors to the Magellanic Cloud during a Forerunner war and ruthlessly killed off nearly the entire species. The Forerunners that committed this act were ashamed and lived the rest of their lives on a planet in the Magellanic Cloud.
* In the soundtrack of the game ''[[Starbound]]'', there is a song titled "Large Magellanic Cloud".
* In [[The Mixed Men]] fix-up by [[A. E. van Vogt]], the culture clash between imperial Earth and the local colonies propelling the plot happens in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
* In ''[[Beyond the Aquila Rift]]'' by [[Alastair Reynolds]] a faster than light travel accident sends the protagonist not merely beyond the titular "Aquila Rift" (~400 light years off course), but to the Large Magellanic Cloud (~150,000 light years off course). Dealing with the reality that hundreds of years have passed outside of FTL travel (and that they have no way to send him home) is a key point of the story.
==Small Magellanic Cloud==
[[File:Fireworks Small Magellanic Cloud.jpg|thumb|In the nearby galaxy, the [[Small Magellanic Cloud]], a massive star has exploded as a supernova, and begun to dissipate its interior into a spectacular display of colorful filaments.]]
* The [[Small Magellanic Cloud]] is the site of the climax of [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s novel ''[[Have Space Suit—Will Travel]]'', in which the spectacular view of the Milky Way is admired.
* In two [[Star Trek]] books from [[Pocket Books]] – ''[[Star Trek: The Lost Era|The Lost Era]]: The Sundered'' and ''[[Star Trek: Titan|Titan]]: The Red King'', the Small Magellanic Cloud is home to the [[Neyel]], an offshoot of humanity who dominated several species native to the Cloud.
* The Small Magellanic Cloud is the location of an [[Alderson disk]] onto which the surface of [[Cold War]]-era Earth is transplanted in [[Charles Stross]]'s short story "[[Missile Gap]]."
* In the [[Star Fleet Universe]], the Small Magellanic Cloud (referred to in that setting as the Lesser Magellanic Cloud) is home to a number of starfaring empires; such as the Baduvai Imperium, the Eneen Protectorates and the Maghadim Hives. All of these empires were conquered by the [[Andromedan Invaders (Star Fleet Universe)|Andromedans]], who then used the Cloud as a jumping off point into the Milky Way. The Cloud was eventually liberated from Andromedan rule in Operation Unity; a coalition of task forces sent by the Federation, Klingons and other Alpha Octant powers.[http://www.starfleetgames.com/documents/MagellanicHistory.pdf Magellanic History] (ADB, 2006)
* [[Iain M. Banks]]' novel ''[[The Player of Games]]'' is partially set in the ''Empire of Azad'' in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
* In [[Dan Simmons]]' [[Hyperion Cantos|''Hyperion'' series]], the planet Earth is thought swallowed up by a black hole but is actually transported to somewhere within the Lesser Magellanic Cloud.
* In [[Edmond Hamilton]]'s [[Star Kings]] series, a race of powerful telepaths called [[H'Harn]] originated in the Small Magellanic Cloud has made two attempts to conquer the [[Milky Way Galaxy]].
* Salo, the space traveler stranded on [[Titan (moon)|Titan]] in [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s ''[[The Sirens of Titan]]'', hails from the fictional planet [[Tralfamadore]], located in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
==M33 ('Triangulum Galaxy')==
[[File:The_sharpest_view_ever_of_the_Triangulum_Galaxy_Messier_33.jpg|thumb|Picture of the [[Triangulum Galaxy]].]]
* In the novel ''[[Voyage of the Space Beagle]]'' by [[A.E. Van Vogt]], the [[starship]] ''Space Beagle'' is sent out by [[Earth]] to investigate [[Extraterrestrial intelligence|alien life forms]]. When it reaches the M33 galaxy in Triangulum, it encounters an enormous disembodied life form called ''The Anabis'' that covers the entire galaxy. "The Anabis" turns planets into [[jungle]] planets because it lives off the [[Energy (esotericism)|life force]] of [[Life|living beings]] when they die and jungle planets have the highest rate of [[ecological energetics]]. Since "The Anabis" has destroyed civilized planets in this way, the crew of the starship devises a way to defeat this being.
* In the fictional [[Star Trek]] universe, the [[Triangulum Galaxy]] is where the [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|USS ''Enterprise-D'']] is warped to after a being known as [[Traveler (Star Trek)|The Traveler]] uses his knowledge to influence the ship's warp drive. M33 is said to be approximately 2.7 million light years away from the [[United Federation of Planets]] territories, or about three hundred years' travel time for the Federation's most advanced vessels. The galaxy was first encountered in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "[[Where No One Has Gone Before]]".
* In the [[Star Fleet Universe]], the Triangulum Galaxy was once dominated by a now-defunct precursor empire; the civil war, which tore the Old Empire asunder, left two major successor states (the loyalist Imperium and the rebel Frigian Kingdom) picking up the pieces. Another elder species, the Helgardians, appeared in M33 at the same time; in the modern era, an array of younger powers (such as the Mallaran Empire) would emerge on the back of Helgardian-traded warp technology.Timeline of the Triangulum Galaxy, Star Fleet Battles Module E2, (ADB, 2001)
* The [[Splashdown (seaQuest DSV)|second season finale]] of ''[[seaQuest DSV]]'' featured the ''[[seaQuest DSV 4600|seaQuest]]'' being transported to the planet Hyperion, over eleven million light years away from Earth in the Triangulum Galaxy.
* On [[Gene Roddenberry]]'s [[Andromeda (TV series)|''Andromeda'']] the [[Systems Commonwealth]] had territory in the Triangulum Galaxy in addition to the [[Andromeda Galaxy|Andromeda]] and [[Milky Way Galaxy|Milky Way Galaxies]]. The new homeworld of which, Tarazed, was located in this Galaxy.
* In the [[Belgian]] [[comic book]] series ''[[Yoko Tsuno]]'' written by [[Roger Leloup]], M33 is the home of the blue-skinned [[Vinean]]s, whom the main characters befriend. About a third of the stories take place in this galaxy.
* In the [[Orion's Arm]] universe, the Triangulum galaxy is home to an extra-galactic civilization, having sent a powerful warning message about a massive artificial object heading towards the local group several million years ago.
* In the 2004 [[Iain M. Banks]] novel ''[[The Algebraist]]'', the Triangulum Nebula was the starting point of the Long Crossing, a 30-million-year journey undertaken by the Dweller civilization to return to the world of Nasqueron where much of the novel is set.
* In the [[Crysis (series)|''Crysis'']] video game series, the alien antagonists, named the "Ceph", originate from this galaxy.
* The 2000 computer game ''[[Gunman Chronicles]]'' takes place in M33, where humanity has established multiple colonies and has the ability to trigger supernovae.
* In March 2012 the [[news satire]] website [[The Onion]] reported that a fleet of warships from the planet Zarklan 12 in the Triangulum Galaxy has arrived at Earth to intervene in the [[2011–2012 Syrian uprising|Syrian War]] on the side of the [[Syrian opposition|Syrian rebel alliance]]. "Supreme Emperor and Dynastic Overlord Thuu'l", the Onion reported, is disturbed by Earth's apathy toward the massacres of innocent Syrians.
* The promotional posters for the movie ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]'' give the phrase "three million lightyears from home", leading many to believe that the title character hails from M33. Furthermore, the [[Easter egg (media)|Easter egg]] of E.T.'s race appearing in ''[[Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace]]'' have many [[Star Wars]] fans pointing to M33 as the "galaxy far, far away".
* In the 2016 Al DesHotel novel 235, The Triangulum Galaxy was a destination for exploration by the Alaytion Empire by the Emperor Kaajii Morrell.
=='Pegasus Galaxy'==
* The [[Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy]] is the "[[Pegasus Galaxy (Stargate)|Pegasus Galaxy]]" in which the television series ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' takes place.
==M51 ('Whirlpool Galaxy')==
* The [[Whirlpool Galaxy]] or M51 was used as the basis for the galaxy in which the story of the [[Homeworld Universe|Homeworld series]] of games takes place. The original Homeworld game takes the player on a journey from the galaxy's outer rim to its core; this is accurately illustrated by the background images as the game campaign progresses.
* The Whirlpool Galaxy appears in the [[video game]], [[Ōkami]] where it is summoned by the main character, Amaterasu, to create a whirlpool in the ocean that she uses to travel to an aquatic palace.
*The three teenage alien protagonists of the [[Roswell (TV series)]]--itself a spin-off of the [[Roswell High]] novels—are said to come from the Five Worlds of the Whirlwind Galaxy.
* The Whirlpool Galaxy or M51 appears in the novels ''[[The Genesis Quest]]'' and ''[[Second Genesis (novel)|Second Genesis]]'' by [[Donald Moffitt]]. In the novels, future humans beam the sum of human knowledge towards the Virgo supercluster, which is received and understood by aliens in the intervening M51 galaxy. The information, 37 million years after transmission, is used for the aliens to reconstruct mankind long after they ceased to exist in the Milky Way galaxy.
*In [[Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers]], Master Vile, father of [[Rita Repulsa]], is the ruler of the M51 galaxy. As such, it is likely that Rita herself originates there, though that is not confirmed.
==M81==
* In the fictional [[Star Fleet Universe]], [[Messier 81|M81]] is the home galaxy for a number of star-faring species, including the [[Tholian Holdfast|Tholians]] (who conquered that galaxy and ruled it for many centuries), the Nebuline (one of the Tholians' former enemies, whose remaining nebula-bound colonies laid the groundwork for M81 piracy.Pirates of M81 Galaxy, Captain's Log #41, (ADB, 2010)) and the [[Seltorians]] (the last of a series of enforcer species for the Tholians; their Revolt virtually exterminated the Tholians as a people, and their subsequent Tribunal fleets pursued exile Tholians to other galaxies, such as the Milky Way ){{cite book
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==M83{{Anchor|M83}}==
* The French synthpop band [[M83 (band)|M83]] are named after this galaxy.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/11/m83-anthony-gonzalez-dance-interview?cat=music&type=article|title=Anthony Gonzalez aka M83: 'I just turned 30 – it was time to try something I'd remember all my life."|author=Luke Bainbridge|date=10 September 2011|website=www.theguardian.com|accessdate=3 October 2018}}
* The band [[Clutch (band)|Clutch]] makes reference to [[Messier 83|M83]] in their song Spacegrass off their self titled album.
"Hey kid, are you going my way?
Hop in, we'll have ourselves a field day.
We'll find us some spacegrass,
Lay low, watch the universe expand.
Skyway, permanent Saturday.
Oh, by the way, Saturn is my rotary.
Hop in, it'll be eternity
Till we make it to M83."{{cite web|url=http://www.pro-rock.com/index.cfm?page=discography&view=lyrics&albumid=5&lid=85|title=CLUTCH Discography: Standard Releases|author=|date=|website=www.pro-rock.com|accessdate=19 April 2018}}
==M86{{Anchor|M83}}==
* In the TV show ''[[Andromeda (TV series)|Andromeda]]'', M86 is cited as being the origin of the Magog invasion of the three galaxies in the season 2 opener "The Widening Gyre".
==Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte Galaxy==
* Part of the [[Lensman]] series by [[E. E. Smith]] takes place in ''Lundmark's Nebula''. This is a clear reference to astronomer [[Knut Lundmark]] whose particular area of specialization was the study of galaxies, and may refer to the [[Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte]] Galaxy.{{cite book | author= E.E. Smith | title=Gray Lensman | publisher=Gnome | orig-year=1939 | date=1951 | isbn= 978-1-882968-12-1}} p. 66, {{cite book | author=Ron Ellik | author2=Bill Evans | author3=Al Lewis | lastauthoramp=yes | title=The Universes of E.E. Smith | publisher=Advent | date=1966 | isbn=0-911682-03-1}} p. 121. — albeit this hypothesis would be contradicted by the series establishing material stating that "Lundmark's Nebula" and the Milky Way Galaxy collided "edge-on" during the "planet-forming era, as well as by stated discrepancies in the books regarding distances and structures compared to the real Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte."
*The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novel ''[[Synthespians]]'' by [[Craig Hinton]] refers to the New Earth Republic of the 101st Century and beyond, which spearheads a programme of colonisation, sending sleeper ships to the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte galaxy and Andromeda.http://www.whoniverse.net/discontinuity/pd66
==Other galaxies==
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==Fictional galaxies==
* [[Murray Leinster]]'s novel ''The Last Spaceship'' has escapees from our galaxy founding a new civilization in a remote galaxy.
* The ''[[Stargate]]'' movie and television series feature several fictional galaxies, including the ''Kaliem'' galaxy (a vague reference to the constellation [[Caelum]], perhaps), in which the planet [[Abydos (Stargate)|Abydos]] is located in the film (this was later [[retcon]]ned to be in the Milky Way), and the ''Ida'' galaxy, home of the [[Asgard (Stargate)|Asgard]] alien species. The [[Ori (Stargate)|Ori]] in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' come from another unnamed galaxy that's in a different supercluster of Galaxies, and use the [[Supergate]] to travel to the [[Milky Way galaxy]].
*In Marvel Comics, the [[Shi'ar]] [[Imperium]] is within a region referred to as the "Shi'ar Galaxy" and is controlled by the Shi'ar race. As this region is said to be situated close to the Skrull and Kree Empires mentioned above, and is one of the three main alien empires of the [[Marvel Universe]], the home of the Shi'ar empire may actually be the Triangulum Galaxy or one of the many [[dwarf galaxy|dwarf galaxies]] within the [[Local Group]]. The Black Galaxy is the home of Ego the Living Planet.
*[[Star Wars]] is set "[[Star Wars galaxy|A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...]]".
*In the ''Superman'' film series, [[Krypton (comics)|Krypton]] is said to be located in the "Xeno Galaxy".
*In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' series, the [[Face of Boe]] is said to be the oldest living inhabitant of the ''Isop'' galaxy. The [[insectoid]] inhabitants of the planet [[Vortis (Doctor Who)|Vortis]] were also from the Isop galaxy. Representatives of the six "Outer Galaxies" meet in ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]''.{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/missiontounknown/detail.shtml | title=BBC – Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide – Mission to the Unknown – Details | accessdate=2011-01-23 }}
*In ''[[Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy]]'', Terra Venture and the Lost Galaxy Rangers travel to the 'Lost Galaxy', a galaxy that seems to exist outside our dimension and which can only be reached by portal. After many adventures in this galaxy Terra Venture and the Rangers escape the Lost Galaxy through a portal opened by reciting the Lost Galaxy Spell backwards.
* In the book ''[[Skylark of Valeron]]'' (part of the [[Skylark of Space]] series by [[E. E. Smith]]), the protagonists visit another galaxy after being rotated through the fourth dimension and visit a number of different galaxies in the last book in the series, ''Skylark DuQuesne''.
* The finale of the 2007 anime series [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] features the titular [[mecha]] as being larger than a galaxy, and capable of wielding small galaxies as deadly projectiles.
* In the [[Mel Brooks]] film ''[[Spaceballs]]'' Captain Lone Starr hails from the 'Ford' galaxy, in reference both to [[Harrison Ford]] and the automobile [[Ford Galaxie]].
* Insomniac Games' popular video game franchise '[[Ratchet & Clank]]' features three fictional galaxies called the Solana Galaxy, the Bogon Galaxy, and the Polaris Galaxy.
* In the 1956 book ''[[Islands of Space]]'' (part of the [[Arcot, Wade, and Morey stories by John W. Campbell]]) the protagonists are lost in space and ask the astronomers of a planet in another galaxy to help them find the Milky Way by looking for a spiral galaxy with two small satellite galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
*In Episode 1.21 of ''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'', "[[The Children of Spider County]]," the alien/human hybrids are said to be from the Krell Galaxy (an allusion to the fictional extinct extraterrestrial race, native to Altair IV, in the s.f. film classic ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'').
* In ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]'' (also known as ''[[Star Blazers]]''), the final major battle before reaching Gamilas/Iscandar is said to occur in what the characters call "The Rainbow Galaxy". However, onscreen, this looked more like a group of planetary masses than an actual galaxy. Presumably, the name comes from the different color of the different planets. This designation was only used in the English language ''Star Blazers''. In the original Japanese ''Yamato'', it was properly called the Rainbow System.
* In the lore of space MMORPG [[EVE Online]] humanity has colonized a distant galaxy named "New Eden", where the game takes place.
* [[Dimension X (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)|Dimension X]] in the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] stories is in some TMNT versions thought to be a galaxy.{{cite web|url=http://all-that-is-interesting.com/pop-cultures-most-fascinating-fictional-galaxies|title=Pop Culture’s Most Fascinating Fictional Galaxies|publisher=All That is Interesting|language=English|author=Alexander Baldwin|date=16 September 2012|accessdate=19 March 2016}} This is especially featured in the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures|TMNT Adventures comic book]].{{cite web|url=http://tmntentity.blogspot.se/2008/06/tmnt-adventures-7.html|title=TMNT Adventures #7|publisher=TMNT Entity|language=English|date=25 June 2008|accessdate=19 March 2016}}
==Notes==
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==External links==
{{Memoryalpha|Galaxy}}
* [http://www.astropoetica.com/Summer11/as-others-see-us.html As Others See Us], a poem by [[Jared Carter]] on the view of the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic Cloud.
* [http://imgur.com/gallery/ElpEu Fictional galaxies]
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