We find that the closest galaxy is still millions of light-years away, in our Word Search The Andromeda galaxy is the Milky Way s closest neighbour. Image Credit: NASA
From megaparsecs, which measure the enormous distance between galaxies, to angstroms, which measure the tiniest distance between atoms, can you find all the units of measurement in today’s Word Search?
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The unit called megaparsec is massive – it equates to one million parsecs or 3.26 million light-years. Astronomers have found that the Andromeda galaxy is about 0.89 megaparsecs away, making it one of the 50 Local Group galaxies that are ‘closest’ to the Milky Way (though still millions of light-years away!). Interestingly, Andromeda is considered to be the farthest thing in the universe that we can observe with the naked eye from Earth.
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