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At the time of its announcement, the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is classified as an irregular galaxy and is thought to be the closest neighboring galaxy to the Earth's location in the Milky Way, being located about 25,000 light-years (7.7 kiloparsecs) away from the Solar System [2] and 42,000 ly (13 kpc) from the Galactic Center.
NGC 4670 is a blue compact galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices.The galaxy lies about 60 million light years away from Earth, which means, given its apparent dimensions, that NGC 4670 is approximately 25,000 light years across. [1]
The Andromeda Galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light-years away. 3 × 10 6 ly: The Triangulum Galaxy , at about 3 million light-years away, is the most distant object visible to the naked eye. 5.9 × 10 7 ly: The nearest large galaxy cluster, the Virgo Cluster, is about 59 million light-years away. 1.5 × 10 8 – 2.5 × 10 8 ly
This distance is the time that it took light to reach the observer from the object multiplied by the speed of light. For instance, the radius of the observable universe in this distance measure becomes the age of the universe multiplied by the speed of light (1 light year/year), which turns out to be approximately 13.8 billion light years.
It is at a distance of about 25,000 light years away from Earth. [4] See also. List of NGC objects (6001–7000) List of NGC objects; References ...
This is a list of star systems within 75–80 light years of Earth. The closest B-type star, Regulus , is in this list. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
150 Em – 16,000 light-years – diameter of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way; 200 Em – 21,500 light-years – distance to OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb; 240 Em – 25,000 light-years – distance to the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy; 260 Em – 28,000 light-years – distance to the center of the Galaxy
Both are located 25,000 light years away from Earth in the Quintuplet cluster, near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The nebula contains approximately 9.3 solar masses worth of ionized gas that was ejected by the star several thousand years ago. The nebula was first observed in radio light by the Very Large Array in the early 1980s.