Horse Isle Answer: Andromeda
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The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is the closest galaxy to us but the Andromeda Galaxy is th largest spiral galaxy near us.
Look on this site for more info...
http://www.brighthub.com/science/space/articles/41000.aspx
Since Betelgeuse is a nearby star (compared to the size of the galaxy, that is), you can assume that it takes about the same time as our Solar System to orbit the galaxy - approximately 240 million years.
All the individual stars you can see in the night sky with your eyes are members of the Milky Way galaxy, the same one our sun is in. And they're all relatively nearby members too.
The Mellaganic Clouds are two dwarf galaxies, satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way. They are "nearby" only to the extent that they are the closest galaxies to our own. Ferdinand Magellan, the leader of the first European voyage to circumnavigate the Earth, named them because they appeared to be permanent clouds in the southern sky. The Clouds aren't visible from Europe or North America.
The milky way, and its a barred spiral galaxy.
No, the Hubble Galaxy (Messier 31, or the Andromeda Galaxy) is not the closest major galaxy to our own. The Andromeda Galaxy is located about 2.537 million light-years from the Milky Way. The closest major galaxy to us is the Triangulum Galaxy (Messier 33), which is approximately 3 million light-years away.
the closest galaxy to us is Andromeda.
Two nearby galaxies are Andromeda galaxy and Triangulum galaxy. Andromeda galaxy is about 2.56 million light years away from us. Triangulum galaxy is about 3 million light years away from us.
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Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky of earth not a galaxy
That is unrelated to age. An irregular galaxy is one that has been distored by the gravity of nearby galaxies.
A powerful jet emitted by a black hole can have significant effects on a nearby galaxy. It can heat up the gas in the galaxy, disrupt star formation, trigger the formation of new stars, and even expel gas from the galaxy, influencing its evolution and morphology.
It is called R136a1. It is in a star cluster in a nearby galaxy.
The most accurate method for determining the distance to a nearby galaxy is through the use of parallax measurements, which involve observing the slight shift in position of the galaxy against background stars as the Earth orbits the Sun. This method allows for precise calculations of the galaxy's distance based on trigonometry.
A galaxy is a cluster of stars and gasses and a planet is something that goes around a star. Can you see why this might not make sense?
The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud are two nearby dwarf galaxies. Two larger galaxies that are still part of our local group are the Andromeda Galaxy (a.k.a. M31), and the Triangulum Galaxy. All of the above-named galaxies can be seen with the naked eye.
Since Betelgeuse is a nearby star (compared to the size of the galaxy, that is), you can assume that it takes about the same time as our Solar System to orbit the galaxy - approximately 240 million years.
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a nearby galaxy, once thought to be a satellite of our own. At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs (≈157,000 light years), it is the third closest galaxy to our Milky Way Galaxy.