"Imagining Our Solar System in the Andromeda Galaxy"

Predicting the current appearance of the Andromeda Galaxy is impossible due to its distance of 2.5 million light years away, meaning we can only see it as it was 2.5 million years ago. If we could observe it now, it would likely appear similar, with minimal changes over such a timescale. Looking back at our own Milky Way from Andromeda, our Solar System would be indiscernible among the billions of stars in one of its spiral arms, while the familiar constellations from Earth would become distorted and unrecognizable.