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by perardi 2132 days ago
“longer” is an understatement. The Andromeda galaxy, which is viewable by the naked eye, is 2.5 million lightyears away. And that’s the closest galaxy to us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy

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One of the closest, anyway. Yeah, most distant objects observed are over 10 billion years "in the past".