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How far is the nearest galaxy from our Milky Way galaxy?

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How far is the nearest galaxy from our Milky Way galaxy?

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For a long time, the Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular type satellite galaxy of our own, was held to be the closest galaxy to the Milky Way. It is 179,000 light-years away. But in 1994 the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy was discovered at 80,000 light-years. It now holds the honor.

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