which galaxy is one of the brightest and accessible to astronomers?

Answer 1

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are the brightest galaxies in the sky (as seen from Earth), although they are not visible from the northern hemisphere. They are both small irregular satellite galaxies to the Milky Way.

The brightest large galaxy would be the Andromeda Galaxy, a spiral that is larger than the Milky Way. It's over 2 million lightyears away but you can see it with the naked eye on a clear night.

Answer 2

For a long time, the Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular type satellite galaxy of our own, was held to be the closest galaxy to the Milky Way. It is 179,000 light-years away.
But in 1994 the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy was discovered at 80,000 light-years. It now holds the honor.

Answer 3

The Messier-31 Galaxy in the Andromeda constellation. It has around 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) stars and is 1.25 times bigger than our own galaxy It has an apparent magnitude of 4.4 and it looks like an oval with a bright centre with the aid of a small telescope. To the naked eye it looks like a fuzzy star - only you'll notice it's not a star as it doesn't twinkle.

Answer 4

The closest, and most accessible, is our own Milky Way Galaxy, Andromeda is the next closest, but far from easily accessible. Our sun will likely burn out by the time anyone from Earth gets there, if ever.

Answer 5

The Andromeda Galaxy, it is the closest to us, it can be seen with the unaided eye on a clear night.

Answer 6

The Andromeda galaxy is the closest and easiest to observe.

Doug

Answer 7

Andromeda the nearest one to ours thanks for the question