... Even the faintest stars visible to the eye are merely hundreds or thousands of light-years distant, all well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. Of course, if you know where to look you can also spot the Andromeda Galaxy as a pale, fuzzy cloud, around 2.5 million light-years away. The N44 Complex . ... A truly giant complex of emission nebulae, N44 is about 1,000 light-years across. ... Staring across interstellar space, the alluring Cat's Eye Nebula lies three thousand light-years from Earth. ...