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To: Dallas59

I wonder how far apart they are from each other-what would a being in either galaxy see of the other galaxy? Andromeda size or Magellanic Cloud size?


5 posted on 06/15/2012 4:01:31 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
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To: GATOR NAVY
Huge.

They are both about 35 million light years distant. Assuming that they are really that far away, then they are about 200,000 light years away from each other, which is a little further than the Large Magellanic Cloud. But the actual diameter is about 7 times as big as the LMC so it will cover a significant part of the sky.

All that goes out the window if one is 35 MLY from earth and the other is 36 MLY.

8 posted on 06/15/2012 5:09:27 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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