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The galaxy MACS0647-JD (inset) appears very young and is only a fraction of the size of our own Milky Way. The galaxy is about 13.3 billion light-years from Earth, the farthest galaxy yet known, and formed 420 million years after the Big Bang. Image taken by Hubble Space Telescope on Nov. 29, 2011, and released Nov. 15, 2012. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Postman and D. Coe (STScI) and CLASH Team View full size image.
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.