Could we ever travel to another galaxy?

Could 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.

How long would it take to get to get out of the galaxy?

So, to leave our Galaxy, we would have to travel about 500 light-years vertically, or about 25,000 light-years away from the galactic centre. We’d need to go much further to escape the ‘halo’ of diffuse gas, old stars and globular clusters that surrounds the Milky Way’s stellar disk.

How can space go on forever?

As we pump more air into the balloon, we’d see the space or surface area expanding and every point or galaxy living on the surface getting farther and farther away from each other. That expansion might go on forever, but the universe itself is still finite.

How far is end of Universe?

The comoving distance from Earth to the edge of the observable universe is about 14.26 gigaparsecs (46.5 billion light-years or 4.40×1026 m) in any direction.

How long would it take to travel to the closest galaxy?

Thank you for you greatly, appreciated, time. The closest galaxy is the recently discovered Canis Major dwarf galaxy, which is “only” 25,000 light-years away. So it would take 25,000 years to get there if you traveled at the speed of light. Actually, that’s the amount of time it would take from the perspective of the outside world.

How long would it take to travel to the Andromeda Galaxy?

A common example that is quoted in this regard is that Andromeda Galaxy is 2 million light years away but it would take just 28 years for the astronaut. However, the requirements of fuel become unrealistic for such a journey.

How many light years away is the Milky Way from other galaxies?

The first and the most obvious one is the ‘Distance’. The estimated distance between Milky Way and the closest galaxies is hundreds of thousands to millions of light years.

How far away are the Andromeda Galaxy and Magellanic Cloud?

Here are their distances from us: Large Magellanic Cloud – 179 thousand light years away Small Magellanic Cloud – 210 thousand light-years away Andromeda Galaxy – 2.9 million light-years away One light year is the distance that light travels in one year in a vacuum at a speed of 186,000 miles per second or about 5,880,000,000,000 miles!