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There are two answers to this. The first is if we ignore special relativity.

The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light years or about 14.8 sextillion miles away. So an object would have to travel at 14.8 quintillion miles per hour or 22 billion times the speed of light to get there in an hour. It is, of course, impossible to travel faster than the speed of light and therefore impossible to go to the Andromeda galaxy in less than 2.5 million years.

Now let's consider special relativity. The idea of a 2.5 million year trip only considers an outside observer. Time, however, slows down for an object approaching the speed of light so the time that goes by for the traveling object will be shorter. In order for the 2.5 million years to pass in an hour for the ship, it would have to travel at less than 1 inch per minute slower than the speed of light.

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