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How far away is the NGC 1566 galaxy from Earth?

What are light-years used for?

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Light years are the distance that light can travel in a year. As for the first question, I’m not sure.

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60 million light-years away (i think..idkk)

expressing distances to stars and other distances on a galactic scale

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Is lightyears how much light can travel in a year? I honestly don't know.

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I'm late but its 60 million light years away.

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1 light-year ≈ 9.46 trillion kilometers (5.88 trillion miles), For example

The closest star system, Alpha Centauri, is about 4.37 light-years away.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is about 100,000 light-years in diameter.

Too answer your question, NGC 1566 is approximately 69 million light-years away from Earth.

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