What is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way Galaxy?

Answer 1

The nearest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy, or sometimes called the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts.

The spiral galaxy is approximately 2,500,000 light years (1.58×1011 AU) away and located in the constellation Andromeda.

It is named for Princess Andromeda who, in Greek Mythology, was sentenced to be a sacrifice to a sea monster and was rescued by the Greek hero Perseus.

It is one of 110 objects in the Messier Catalog, space objects viewable with the naked eye, and is one of the brightest in the group.

There are however three more galaxies nearer to the Milky Way than Andromeda. First is the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, an elliptical loop galaxy only 70,000 light years from the Earth itself. After that there is the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (25,000 light years from the Milky Way) and then the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (75,000 light years away from the Milky Way)

Answer 2

The Andromeda Galaxy (also known as M31) is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. It is located about 2.5 million light-years away and is on a collision course with the Milky Way in the distant future.

Answer 3

M31 (Andromeda Galaxy), the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud. These, and several other galaxies and dwarf galaxies, form part of the "local group"; a group of galaxies in our neighborhood. In the case of galaxies, "neighborhood" means a few million light-years at most.

Answer 4

That would be the great galaxy that we see in the constellation 'Andromeda'.

It's distance from the Milky Way is spoken of as '2.5 million light years', and under good

sky conditions, it's visible to the naked eye ... the only external galaxy that is.

Answer 5

The nearest galaxies are the ones in the Local Group: the Andromeda Galaxy, the Triangulum Galaxy, and several small (dwarf) galaxies. Do some research on "Local Group" (for instance, on the Wikipedia article of that name) for more information - including a more complete list.

Answer 6

The closest galaxy to our galaxy the Sagittarius galaxy but its Dwarf Galaxy, Andromeda is the Complete Galaxy and yet classified as the Galaxy which is closest to our galaxy. Facts : There are 12 Dwarf galaxies and 1 complete galaxy within the distance of 500,000 light years. Andromeda Galaxy is moving towards our galaxy at the speed 300,000 Kilometers per hour, but its so far that i would take millions of year to have a clash.

Answer 7

The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is about 42,000 light years from the galactic center, and a mere 25,000 light years from us (which puts it closer to us than the center of our own galaxy, which is 30,000 light years away from the Solar System).

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Answer 8

Earth is, of course, located inside the Milky Way Galaxy. If you consider the magellanic clouds, dwarf galaxies speeding through our local group, to be galaxies--then the LMC is probably closest at about 170,000 light years. The next closest spiral galaxy of our size is Andromeda, which is about 2.5 million light years in the constellation of Andromeda (a bit below Cassiopeia). Andromeda is also a little bigger than our galaxy, and has more stars.

Answer 9

M31 (Andromeda Galaxy), the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud. These, and several other galaxies and dwarf galaxies, form part of the "local group"; a group of galaxies in our neighborhood. In the case of galaxies, "neighborhood" means a few million light-years at most.

M31 (Andromeda Galaxy), the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud. These, and several other galaxies and dwarf galaxies, form part of the "local group"; a group of galaxies in our neighborhood. In the case of galaxies, "neighborhood" means a few million light-years at most.

M31 (Andromeda Galaxy), the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud. These, and several other galaxies and dwarf galaxies, form part of the "local group"; a group of galaxies in our neighborhood. In the case of galaxies, "neighborhood" means a few million light-years at most.

M31 (Andromeda Galaxy), the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud. These, and several other galaxies and dwarf galaxies, form part of the "local group"; a group of galaxies in our neighborhood. In the case of galaxies, "neighborhood" means a few million light-years at most.

Answer 10

The two closest to the Milky Way are the Large Magellanic Cloud, and the Small Magellanic Cloud.