Best Answer: Walking a mile a day would improve your general cardiovascular health. It would give you more stamina and endurance. It would help your resistance to disease. It would build muscle mass in your legs.
A summary of these methods: 1  Cepheid variable stars and their cousins the RR Lyrae stars are the primary distance indicators in the galaxy and the local group. 2  They pulsate radially (basically at the sound speed in the envelope of the star) with a period inversely proportional to the square root of the density.
1 How far away is the nearest galaxy? 2  The newly discovered dwarf galaxy in Sagittarius, only 60 000 light years away, is spiralling into the Milky Way. 3  The nearest large spiral galaxy like the Milky Way is the Andromeda galaxy, about 2.7 million light years away.