What is the distance to our next closest galaxy?

Question

What is her name?

Answer 1

Canis Major, which is located only 42,000 light years away from the center of the Milky Way.

"An international team of astronomers have discovered a new galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way. This new galaxy, Canis Major, is located only 42,000 light years away from the centre of the Milky Way - it's our new "closest galaxy". Canis Major was discovered during an infrared survey of the sky, which allowed the astronomers to peer through the obscuring dust and gas of the Milky Way. Canis Major is quite small (as galaxies go); it only contains about a billion stars. ..."