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What unit of measurement would you use to measure from the Milky Way Galaxy to the Andromeda Galaxy?

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parsecs

Step-by-step explanation:

The Sun is at a distance of 8.3 kiloparsecs from the centre of the Milky Way system. When dealing with other galaxies or clusters of galaxies, the convenient unit is the megaparsec (1 megaparsec = 1,000,000 parsecs). The distance to the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) is about 0.76 megaparsec.

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