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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.
In the article What is the closest galaxy to the Milky Way? on universetoday.com author Matt Williams reveals the interesting facts about the Canis Major Dwarf galaxy. Many have thought that the Andromeda galaxy was the closest to the Milky Way, but it is the closest spiral galaxy. The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is about 25,000 light years from Earth meaning that this galaxy is closer to the solar system than we are to the center of the Milky Way.