What is the nearest spiral galaxy to your Milky Way?

Answer 1

The closest Galaxy to us (apart form the Milkyway in which we sit), is the The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (an irregular galaxy) located about 25,000 light-years away from our Solar System. Then there are the two satellite galaxies to ours, the large and small Magellanic Clouds. The LMC lies about 160,000 light years away and while the SMC is around 200,000 light years away.

After these comes the Andromeda Galaxy, which is a separate spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth.

Note, there may be some closer remnants of galaxies that the Milky Way has consumed that could be argued to be closer.

Answer 2

The nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way/ The Earth is M31 aka Andromeda. You can see all of the galaxies (Spiral, irregular, and elliptical) in our Local Group here: http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/local_group.html The nearest spiral galaxy to the Earth, however, is the Milky Way. We are in a spiral galaxy. Except, if you don't count this, then it is infact M31, or Andromeda.

Answer 3

There is a galaxy called the Andromeda galaxy that is potentially going to collide with the Milky Way

Answer 4

The nearest big galaxy is Andromeda, but the Milky Way has several neighborhood mini-galaxies. The most significant are the Magellanic clouds.

Answer 5

The nearest spiral galaxy to us is the Andromeda Galaxy at a distance of approximately 2.5 million light years.

Answer 6

The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy. It's 42,000 light years away from the center of our own galaxy, but 25,000 light years away from us.

Answer 7

I'm not sure, but doyou really mean the nearest, which is the Andromeda Galaxy?

Answer 8

That would be M31.