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State the speed of Light, and how far is the nearest galaxy in terms of Light years? ​
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State the speed of Light, and how far is the nearest galaxy in terms of Light years? ​

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speed of light is 299 792 458 m / s

25,000 light years.........The closest known galaxy to us is the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, at 236,000,000,000,000,000 km (25,000 light years) from the Sun.

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The center of our galaxy is about 27,000 light-years away. The nearest spiral galaxy to ours, the Andromeda galaxy, is 2.5 million light-years away.

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