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Andromeda has a D 25 isophotal diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs (152,000 light-years) [8] and is approximately 765 kpc (2.5 million light-years) from Earth. The galaxy's name stems from the area of Earth's sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda , which itself is named after the princess who was the wife of Perseus in Greek ...
This is a list of known galaxies within 3.8 megaparsecs (12.4 million light-years) of the Solar System, in ascending order of heliocentric distance, or the distance to the Sun. This encompasses about 50 major Local Group galaxies, and some that are members of neighboring galaxy groups , the M81 Group and the Centaurus A/M83 Group , and some ...
For example, the nearest star to the Earth after the Sun is Proxima Centauri, about 4.2 light-years (4.0 × 10 13 km; 2.5 × 10 13 mi) or 30 million (3 × 10 7) solar diameters away. To visualize that scale, if the Sun were a ping-pong ball , Proxima Centauri would be a pea about 1,100 km (680 mi) away, and the Milky Way would be about 30 ...
It is unclear whether the Triangulum Galaxy is a companion of the Andromeda Galaxy; the two galaxies are 750,000 light years apart, [7] and experienced a close passage 2–4 billion years ago which triggered star formation across Andromeda's disk.
Scientists say there's a 50/50 chance that our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy, ... located about 2.5 million light-years away. ... The team even went as far as to ...
Up until the discovery of JADES-GS-z13-0 in 2022 by the James Webb Space Telescope, GN-z11 was the oldest and most distant known galaxy yet identified in the observable universe, [7] having a spectroscopic redshift of z = 10.957, which corresponds to a proper distance of approximately 32 billion light-years (9.8 billion parsecs).
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy with a D 25 isophotal diameter estimated at 26.8 ± 1.1 kiloparsecs (87,400 ± 3,600 light-years), [10] but only about 1,000 light-years thick at the spiral arms (more at the bulge).
The Andromeda Galaxy and its satellite galaxy, Messier 110, to the bottom-right of the center About half of the Andromeda's satellite galaxies are orbiting it along a highly flattened plane, with 14 out of 16 following the same sense of rotation.