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Originally Posted by Matt Wastell
Hello all,
I was reading a very cool book on Astronomy (Astronomy, created by Basher written by Dan Green) to my four year old son Flinders and came across this written fact -
Andromeda is 20 Milky Way widths away.
I know the distances are huge but that feels close!
Love the book for the young ones!
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The milky Way is aprox 100.000 light years wide, and the distance to Andromeda galaxy is about Two Million odd Light Years away, so Yes it is about Twenty Milky Way Widths away ..
Cheers