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What is the ratio of the distance to Andromeda to the size of the observable universe?

Answer 1

36 thousand times.

The distance between us and Andromeda (I suppose you mean the galaxy) is 2.537 million of light years. The distance between us and the most remote object observed is The diameter of the observable universe is 91 billion of light years. Then the ratio is #91000/2.537 \approx 35869 #. So the universe is 36 thousand times bigger than the distance between us and Andromeda.

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Answer 2

Lydia Allen

About 11 K.

Utilizing the BB event's radial expansion, travel 13.6 billion light years.

The observable universe has a size of 2 X 13.8 = 27.6 bly (bly).

Andromeda is located roughly 2.5 million light years away.

Therefore, the ratio is almost 27.6 B/2.5 M = 27600/2.5 = 11 K.

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Answer 3

Christopher Ales

The size of the observable universe divided by the distance to Andromeda is roughly 1:46,000.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.