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> The distance to the closest galaxy, Andromeda, is 2.537 million light years

There are many (smaller) galaxies much closer than Andromeda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_galaxies

There's no reason life would only emerge in large galaxies.



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