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How many years does it take for light to reach us from the Andromeda Galaxy?
2.5 million years
Other Galaxies
| Object | Time for the Light to Reach Us |
|---|---|
| Sirius (brightest star in our sky) | 9 years |
| Betelgeuse (bright star) | 430 years |
| Orion Nebula | 1500 years |
| Andromeda Galaxy | 2.5 million years |
How long will it take for the Andromeda Galaxy to collide with ours?
about 4.5 billion years
The Andromeda–Milky Way collision is a galactic collision predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group—the Milky Way (which contains the Solar System and Earth) and the Andromeda Galaxy.
How far in the past is the Andromeda Galaxy?
2.5 million light-years
Bottom line: At 2.5 million light-years, the great Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31) rates as the most distant object you can see with the unaided eye. Enjoying EarthSky?
Can we ever travel to another galaxy?
The technology required to travel between galaxies is far beyond humanity’s present capabilities, and currently only the subject of speculation, hypothesis, and science fiction. However, theoretically speaking, there is nothing to conclusively indicate that intergalactic travel is impossible.
What color is the sun?
White
BlueRedYellowOrange
Connecticut Sun/Colors
When we direct solar rays through a prism, we see all the colors of the rainbow come out the other end. That’s to say we see all the colors that are visible to the human eye. “Therefore the sun is white,” because white is made up of all the colors, Baird said.
Did NASA intercept a message from another galaxy in 1998?
SOS call from space? The article posted by Alienstar, which has garnered over a million reads claims that NASA intercepted a message from another galaxy back in January 1998, but couldn’t translate and decode it till 2011.
Who sent the mysterious signal from the Andromeda Galaxy?
Dr. Kulakov told Universe that the signal emanated from a point beyond the galaxy nearest to our own, Andromeda, and was sent by beings that had apparently achieved a civilization no more advanced than our own here on Earth.
Did NASA decode a distress signal from a planetoid outside our galaxy?
Interestingly enough, one of those files featured an article originally published in the Weekly World News (September 15, 1998 Vol 19 No. 51) with a story about how NASA detected, intercepted, and decoded a mathematically-based distress signal from a purportedly doomed planetoid outside our own galaxy.
Did NASA intercept an 80k year old distress message?
DID NASA INTERCEPT AN 80,000 YEAR OLD DISTRESS SIGNAL? This is one of the strangest stories I’ve received recently, and it was sent by Mr. T.M. NASA, according to this article, intercepted, and eventually decoded, an 80,000 year old distress message from a planet apparently outside this galaxy.