23 million light-years.
The Andromeda galaxy is approximately 2.537 million light-years away from Earth.
The Andromeda galaxy is approximately 2.537 million light-years away from Earth.
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Somewhere around 26,000 light-years.
It's a dwarf galaxy; the diameter is about 6500 light-years (according to information in the Wikipedia article).
There is not a ''farthest galaxy'' in the universe. But thereslotte is a very far galaxy.
25,000
The nearest galaxy to our Milky Way is the Andromeda galaxy, which is about 2.5 million light years away (that is not including the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, small, irregular "satellite" galaxies of our own).
The Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy are approximately 2.5 million light-years apart. This makes Andromeda the closest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way. Both galaxies are part of the Local Group of galaxies.
Answer: 100,000 light years = 9.454e+17 km
Billions and billions of years....
The Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100,000 light-years (30 kiloparsecs, 9x1017 km) in diameter, and is considered to be, on average, about 1,000 ly (0.3 kpc) thick .