In today's image, we see the spiral galaxy known as NGC 7331. this galaxy is about 50 million light years from Earth. Beyond it we see several other galaxies in the distance - since these galaxies appear about 1/10 the size of NGC 7331, we can estimate that they are 10x more distant. (This does assume that the galaxies are about the same diameter!)

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