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by Blammar 1542 days ago
Depends on your definition of "star." You can see the Andromeda galaxy with your naked eye (as well as the galactic center.)
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True, but IIUC, that's the only object you can see in the sky that is not a part of our galaxy.
The Magellanic clouds are also visible to the naked eye.
But you don’t see individual stars. When I have been out in the middle of nowhere and looked at the Andromeda galaxy, it just looks like a smudge. You need a telescope to really realize it is made up of many individual stars.