The movies version was twelve galaxies away. The Silver Age Krypton was on the other side of our galaxy. The current canon puts it some 25 lightyears from Earth.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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