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  • Southern Pinwheel Galaxy M83 Centre
  • NGC 1300
  • The Andromeda Galaxy
  • M104 - The Sombrero Galaxy
  • M104 - The Sombrero Galaxy 2
  • Arp 273
  • NGC 6744 - A Milky Way Twin
  • Edge-On Galaxy NGC 5866
  • Arp 188 - The Tadpole Galaxy
  • The HCG 59 Group of Galaxies
  • Stephan's Quintet
  • Sizes of Galaxies
  • Sizes of Galaxies II
  • Sizes of Galaxies III
  • Supernova 1994D in NGC 4526
  • Our Local Group
  • Milky Way-Andromeda collision as seen from Earth
  • Milky Way - Andromeda Collision
  • NGC 2683 - The UFO Galaxy
  • Antennae Galaxies colliding
  • Centaurus A
  • The Centre of Centaurus A
  • Virgo Cluster
  • Coma Cluster of Galaxies
  • Structure of the universe 1

This chart compares the sizes of some of the biggest known galaxies. You can directly compare the size of the Milky Way Galaxy or the Andromeda Galaxy with IC 1101, the largest known galaxy. IC 1101 is a supergiant elliptical galaxy with a diameter of approximately 6 million light years and roughly 100 trillion stars. IC 1101 is about 1 billion light years away from the Milky Way. We have another chart comparing several other large galaxies as well as one chart comparing smaller galaxies.


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Sizes of Galaxies II
Published by Published or last modified on 2019-11-09
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