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How big is the Andromeda Galaxy?

Updated: 9/15/2023
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The Andromeda Galaxy or M31 has been estimated to be 220,000 light years across. Our Galaxy, The Milky Way, is about 100,000 light years across.

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The latest estimates for the diameter is about 43,000 ly across.

This is based on a 3.18 degree angle in the sky and a distance of 2.54 Mly.

A big caveat here that this is only the visible part of the galaxy. Since a galaxy must be made up of a substantial amount of dark matter the true size of the galaxy cant be determined at the moment.

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