Can anyone list some relatively close galaxies besides Andromeda? I need them for a story... (preferably less than 20 light years away :D)

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You'll to look on a website. And they'll mainly be things like NGC-#### or DSN-####.

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there are no galaxies within 20 light years. the nearest galaxy outside the milky way is the small magellanic cloud, located about 50,000 parsecs (about 163,000 l.y.) away. for comparison, the andromeda galaxy is 2.1 million l.y. away.

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Originally posted by Paladin:
**You'll to look on a website. And they'll mainly be things like NGC-#### or DSN-####.

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Uhhh... no they won't.

M81, M51, M77, M87 M104. I don't know the distance, but they're well beyond 20 light years.

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(This message has been edited by goomeister (edited 03-25-2001).)

The nearest large galaxy is The Andromeda galaxy as said. They will have names (like Sombrero) or numbers like NGC (New Galactic Catalog)-## or M(Messier Object)##.

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hm, I thought that Andromeda was 2.1 lys away... :

Ah well, any galaxy with a name is good

If not, I'll check NASA

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It would be hard to have a glaxy 2.1 light years away when the Milky Way itself has a diameter of roughly 100,000 light years.

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Originally posted by Starkiller:
**Hell, besides the Sun, the nearest star is four light years away.

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Uh, no the Sun is 8 light minutes away, about 93 million miles. I think you're thinking of the Solar system's diameter, which is 4 light years by some estimates.

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There's a really good local starmap in a book called Apocalypses and Apostrophes by John Barnes. It looks like it was almost MADE for being converted into EV:O.

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i found a link with a table of the known local group galaxies, with some estimates of size and distances (but not mass, unfortunately). most links i checked, especially the Messier and New General Catalogue listings, are designed primarily for observers--hence, no distances are given.
(url="http://"http://www.seds.org/messier/more/local.html")http://www.seds.org/...more/local.html(/url)

also, i made a small excel spreadsheet of nearby sun-like stars in cartesian coordinates, instead of the usual r.a. and dec; email me and i'll send you a copy.

and please, for those of you who don't know anything about astronomy, some of your posts serve only to confuse instead of help.

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(This message has been edited by astro (edited 03-26-2001).)

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Originally posted by astro:
**i found a link with a table of the known local group galaxies, with some estimates of size and distances (but not mass, unfortunately). most links i checked, especially the Messier and New General Catalogue listings, are designed primarily for observers--hence, no distances are given.
http://www.seds.org/...more/local.html

also, i made a small excel spreadsheet of nearby sun-like stars in cartesian coordinates, instead of the usual r.a. and dec; email me and i'll send you a copy.

and please, for those of you who don't know anything about astronomy, some of your posts serve only to confuse instead of help.
**

Well humph! I guess I won't tell everyone about my theory for why the moon stays in Earths orbit. You see, the moon is really a giant taco that orbits a tiny little beachball which likes to play chess with Earth (which is a chili dog) every once in a while ;).

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I guess I won't tell everyone about my theory for why the moon stays in Earths orbit. You see, the moon is really a giant taco that orbits a tiny little beachball which likes to play chess with Earth (which is a chili dog) every once in a while;).

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