Galaxies Galaxies are collections of stars like our Sun. Galaxies usually contain many hundreds of billions of stars. The sun resides in the Milky Way galaxy. The nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way is the Andromeda galaxy, about 2.25 million light years away. Click on the below images for a larger version and picture details... M51 Whirlpool M101 Pinwheel NGC 5907 NGC7331 NGC6814 M33 Triangulum NGC891 M82 M63 NGC 6946 NGC 2403 Abell 426 M109 NGC3184 Black Eye NGC 4217 NGC 3718 NGC 7479 M31 Andromeda M81 Group