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It lies near the center of the constellation. It reached a peak magnitude of 4.3 before steadily fading. Deep-sky objects Large Sagittarius Star Cloud with Lagoon Nebula at top The Omega Nebula, also known as the Horseshoe or Swan Nebula. The Milky Way is at its densest near Sagittarius, as this is where the Galactic Center lies.
The Milky Way has several smaller galaxies gravitationally bound to it, as part of the Milky Way subgroup, which is part of the local galaxy cluster, the Local Group.. There are 61 small galaxies confirmed to be within 420 kiloparsecs (1.4 million light-years) of the Milky Way, but not all of them are necessarily in orbit, and some may themselves be in orbit of other satellite galaxies.