Nov 19, 2020 · The Andromeda Galaxy is actually number 86 in that list of nearest galaxies. The Small Magellanic Cloud is number 23 and the large Magellanic Cloud is number 19. The …

Sep 25, 2013 · First, the nearest galaxy to ours is not Andromeda, according to the NASA based page "The Nearest Galaxies", it was until recently considered to be the Canis Major Dwarf …

Jan 2, 2023 · The galaxy closest to any member of the Local Group. Wikipedia has a list of nearby galaxies to reference, so I'll pick the first one. One problem with answering this …

Aug 9, 2019 · Another way to put it, will even the nearest galaxy be receding from us faster than the speed of light in roughly 15 billion years? To me, that would seem to require dark energy to …

Dec 1, 2014 · The nearest one is the one you are on: Milky Way. It can be seen from any place, as it is all around us. If you want to actually look at a whole galaxy in a simple view, then the …

where 209.9563 is a Galactic longitude, which changes from 0 to 360 degrees. -06.5399 is Galactic latitude, which is always around zero (+/- 10 degrees), because our galaxy is almost …

Apr 28, 2023 · This is most likely NGC 55, which is interacting weakly with NGC 300. NGC 55 is described as a Magellanic type barred spiral galaxy. This answer assumes that you ignore the …

The same goes for other stars in our Galaxy. The light from a star at 4 light years takes 4 years to reach us; it's the definition of a light year. One could make the following comparison: suppose …

Oct 28, 2019 · The bulge of the Galaxy has a radius of about 2 kpc and a mass, mostly in stars, of about $2\times 10^{10} M_{\odot}$. If the average star has a mass of $\sim 0.3 M_{\odot}$ (as …

The Andromeda Galaxy, M31, is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. The distance to M31 has been measured using other techniques to be 2.5⋅10^6 light years , or 7.6⋅10^5 parsecs. …