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Originally Posted by Drunk Vegan
Andromeda is still the largest galaxy in the Local Group according to diameter - it's 220,000 light-years across, versus about half that for the Milky Way.
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I thought I remember reading that the extent of the Milky Way is a fair bit larger than previously thought due to discovery of lower luminosity stars at its outskirts... Sorry, don't have a reference at hand.