An Overview of the Universe
The Local Group

The Milky Way is part of a set of galaxies known as the Local Group. The Local Group includes other galaxies within 3 million light-years..

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17,623,767,456,000,000,000 miles

Pictures of other galaxies in the Local Group

The Andromeda Galaxy


The Triangulum Galaxy

Quick facts

The next closest star to us is Proxima Centauri. It is 4.22 light years, about 250 TRILLION miles.
The closest solar system is the Vega System, 25 light years.
The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.2 Million light years away.

The FASTEST man-made object moves at 150,000 miles per hour (mph) which is only 41.6 miles per second. Compare that to light at ~186,000 miles per second.
That means it would take more than 4500 years to go to the Vega System, the next closest solar system. UFO's????

Lets go on to the next level.