The Nearest Galaxies

Artist's impression of the Nearest Galaxies. This collage uses real photos of the Large and Small Magellenic Clouds. The galaxy representing the Milky Way is not really the Milky Way. The Milky Way is 1,980,000,000,000,000,000 kilometers from the Small Magellenic Cloud and 1,693,000,000,000,000,000 kilometers from the Large Magellenic Cloud. The Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy is 738,000,000,000,000,000 km from the Milky Way and the Canis Major Dwarf is 397,000,000,000,000,000 km away.

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