If you find a place where the sky is good and dark and you know where to look, you can see the
Andromeda Galaxy in the night sky. It looks like a fuzzy patch of dim, hazy light. It's actually a
galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars, completely outside of the Milky Way galaxy that we live in.
The distance to the Andromeda Galaxy is usually given as a couple of million light years.
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What galaxy is closest to ours and how far is it from the earth? For a long time, the Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular type satellite galaxy of our own, was held to be the closest galaxy to the Milky Way. It is 179,000 light-years away. But in 1994 the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy was discovered at 80,000 light-years. It now holds the honor. Amy C. Fredericks and Michael Loewenstein
for Ask an Astrophysicist The closest galaxy to earth is Andromeda. It is 2.2 million light years away away from us. In Five billion years this galaxy will probably collide with ours. in other words its very very very very far!
We really don't know where all the planets in the galaxy are, but if the edge of the galaxy has stars with planets then the furthest are about 80 000 light years away. (The Solar system is about 30 000 light years from the galactic center and the Milky Way is about 100 000 light years in diameter)
The closest galaxy to our own galaxy the Milky Way is the Canis Major Dwarf galaxy which is colliding with the Milky Way.
Yours is ~100,000 light-years, mine is 168,365.29 light years.
About 13.5 billion light years away.
approximatley 25,000 Light Years away
The Andromeda Galaxy is about 24 000 000 000 000 000 000 km away from Earth.
No scale was specified. However, if the Earth was one inch, the Andromeda Galaxy would be 29,300,000,000 miles away.
12.5 light years away :) 73487500000000 miles 118259130907260 kilometers that is the nearest galaxy but the nearest sun is Alpha centauri; it is 44000 Billion km away from earth
About 2.5 million light years from Earth, but since the Earth and Sun are only 8 light minutes apart, there isn't that much of a difference in how far the Andromeda Galaxy is from the Sun or Earth. So the Andromeda Galaxy is about 2.5 million light years from the Sun and Earth.
Mars, like Earth, is in the Milky Way galaxy. The next nearest galaxy is the Andromeda galaxy, which is about 14,696,575,000,000,000,000 miles away.
The Andromeda galaxy is about 2.5 million light years away from the earth.
approximatley 25,000 Light Years away
About 25,000 light years away...
About 1141 million light-years.
The Andromeda Galaxy is about 24 000 000 000 000 000 000 km away from Earth.
Quite litterally, in a galaxy far far away. In the first episode, they find themselves on an ancient ship nearly imposibly far away from Earth. So far we do not know where they are, except that they are jumping from galaxy to galaxy and at the rate it took the ship to get where it is now, they would die long before reaching Earth if they turned around.
It is a fictional galaxy "Far, far away"
Nothing from another galaxy can affect Earth ever. Other galaxies are too far away.
No it is "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away"
in a galaxy far, far away
The nearest spiral galaxy to Earth is the Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million light years away. Plus it it the furthest thing you can see with the naked eye!