Nearby?........................
Yeh, 13 Million light-years is in our neighborhood. Just down the street.
Andromeda is 2 million and so would be our next door neighbor.
There is an article in June’s Sky and Telescope about the absurdity of distance in cosmological terms. Very interesting.
The blurb from the article:
The author discusses the quantity of numbers that are used in astronomy like the age of the Moon’s subsurface layers, mass of the biggest black hole in the Milky Way and distance in light years of the Abell 2065 galaxy. Topics covered include the impact of the conversion of 1.1 billion light years in miles, reminder of the interview of a Buddhist monk by author Peter Matthiesen about his crippled legs and admission of the absurdity of grasping huge numbers.