Messier 32 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy about 2.65 million light years away in the constellation Andromeda
Maffei 1 is a giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation about 10 billion light years...
No, there isn't.The milky way is the name given to the band of stars we see due to the flattened disk-like characteristic shape of our galaxy. We can call our galaxy the milky way galaxy.
There isn't one. really. If there is a difference, you could say that the Milky Way is the milky band of light as seen from Earth, whereas the Milky Way Galaxy is the whole galaxy, which includes...