About 2.54 million years
The light from our Sun will take about 2.5 million years to reach the Andromeda Galaxy.
The Andromeda Galaxy is 12,904,531,200,000,000,000 miles away and the space shuttle orbits at 18,000 mph so to travel to the Andromeda Galaxy in the space shuttle would take 81.8 billion years which is around 18 times the currrent age of the universe!!!
The Andromeda galaxy is about 2.4 million light years away, meaning that light from it takes 2.4 million light years to reach us, so the light we see from it now was emitted 2.4 million years ago.
The basic premise is that the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years away, so light from it takes 2.5 million years to reach it. Therefore we see it not as it is now but as it was 2.5 million years ago. The idea that it might no longer exist is rather absurd. A few million years may seem long to us but it is a very short time in terms of how galaxies evolve. It is in all likelihood impossible for a galaxy to experience any significant change in such a relatively short period of time.
Just like any other trip, how long it takes you to get there depends onhow fast you travel.Here are the times you should plan on, for a few different choices, to theAndromeda galaxy:-- Walking, 3 miles per hour . . . . . . . . . . 558,846 billion years-- Driving, 70 miles per hour. . . . . . . . . . . 23,950 billion years-- Passenger airline, 500 miles per hour . . . . 3,353 billion years-- Speed of a radio wave or light wave . . . . . . . 21/2 million years.Apparently, the speed of a radio wave or light wave is the only practical choice,since the whole universe is less than 20 billion years old.
The light from our Sun will take about 2.5 million years to reach the Andromeda Galaxy.
The Andromeda Galaxy is 12,904,531,200,000,000,000 miles away and the space shuttle orbits at 18,000 mph so to travel to the Andromeda Galaxy in the space shuttle would take 81.8 billion years which is around 18 times the currrent age of the universe!!!
No. With current technology we can't even go to the nearest stars (outside our Solar System), the Alpha Centauri system.With some hypothetical technology it MIGHT one day be possible, for example, to reach 1/10 of the speed of light - though even that is science fiction for now. At such a speed, it would take over 40 years to reach Alpha Centauri; and 25 million years to reach the Andromeda Galaxy. But if you wait 3 or 4 billion years, the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way will join.
4'000'000'000'000'000'000'000'000'000'000 years
The Andromeda galaxy is about 2.4 million light years away, meaning that light from it takes 2.4 million light years to reach us, so the light we see from it now was emitted 2.4 million years ago.
Andromeda is not a stellar system, but rather a galaxy. It's incredibly far from Earth: we could technically send something there, but at speeds currently available to us, no person could live long enough to reach it.
Not as far as anyone knows, and it's really very unlikely. Traveling at the speed of light ... which is impossible for people ... it would take millions of years ... which is longer than people have existed ... to reach the Andromeda Galaxy. So it's probably a safe bet that earth people have never been there.
Never - its not alive. But it has existed for many billions of years, almost 13.
No human probes, no. The Andromeda Galaxy is simply too far away. It is about 2.5 million light years away, meaning that even at the speed of light it would take 2.5 million years to reach it, and no manmade probe can travel anywhere near that fast. Currently the furthest man-made probe is about 16 light ours from Earth, and it took nearly 35 years to get that far. Though technically we have no way of knowing if there is intelligent life somehwere in the Andromeda Galaxy that might be exploring their own solar system with probes.
If a volume knob has a high resistance, then the radio's volume would be low because more of the electrical signal would be resisted and not reach the amplifier and thus not reach the speakers.
The radio signal can travel to the moon, bounce off its face, and reach an operator on the other side of the world. You can even talk to the International Space Station!
Canis Major Dwarf - 0.025 million years