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IC 1101. It's 5000.000 (5 million) light-years across and our milky way is only 100.000 (100 thousand) light-years across.

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The Milky Way galaxy is much smaller than the largest known galaxy in the universe, IC 1101. IC 1101 is about 6 million light-years in diameter, whereas the Milky Way is approximately 100,000 light-years in diameter.

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