How far away is the galaxy from earth?

Answer 1

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.
That would be the answer to the above question.

Answer 2

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!

Answer 3

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)

Answer 4

The closest galaxy to our own galaxy the Milky Way is the Canis Major Dwarf galaxy which is colliding with the Milky Way.

Answer 5

Yours is ~100,000 light-years, mine is 168,365.29 light years.

Answer 6

About 13.5 billion light years away.