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    Discounting the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, and the Canis Major dwarf galaxy, which galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy?

    Question #105470. Asked by shalomnow. (May 10 09 5:12 PM)


    elburcher

    		The Andromeda Galaxy (also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224; often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts) is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It is the nearest spiral galaxy to our own, the Milky Way.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy

    May 10 09, 5:32 PM
    Watchkeeper

    		The dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC185 (entry 185 in the New General Catalogue) is the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way. It features at No. 18 in the list of nearest galaxies (the first 17 being satellites of the Milky Way) with M31 (the "Great Andromeda Nebula"), of which it is a satellite, coming in at No. 34.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_galaxies

    NB In the above list the galaxies are measured from Earth, with our Milky Way being the closest galaxy at No. 1. This means 1 must be subtracted from all the rankings shown. Thus NGC185 is shown as 19th from the Earth and therefore is 18th from the Milky Way.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_185


    May 10 09, 6:16 PM

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