{"id":244675,"date":"2026-09-30T09:04:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/how-long-would-it-take-a-starship-to-reach-andromeda-at-every-warp-speed"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:04:56","slug":"how-long-would-it-take-a-starship-to-reach-andromeda-at-every-warp-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/how-long-would-it-take-a-starship-to-reach-andromeda-at-every-warp-speed","title":{"rendered":"How Long Would It Take a Starship to Reach Andromeda at Every Warp Speed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5GH1-rEvrCA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How long would it actually take a Starfleet starship to travel from Earth to the Andromeda Galaxy?<\/p>\n<p>Andromeda is roughly 2.5 million light-years from Earth \u2014 an almost unimaginable distance. But what happens when we apply Star Trek\u2019s TNG-era warp scale to that journey?<\/p>\n<p>In this video, we travel from Warp 1 all the way to Warp 9.999, calculating approximately how long a starship would need to cross the enormous gap between the Milky Way and Andromeda.<\/p>\n<p>At Warp 1, the journey takes around 2.5 million years.<\/p>\n<p>At Warp 9, it\u2019s still roughly 1,650 years.<\/p>\n<p>At Warp 9.9, that falls to around 820 years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/how-long-would-it-take-a-starship-to-reach-andromeda-at-every-warp-speed\">Continue reading \u201cHow Long Would It Take a Starship to Reach Andromeda at Every Warp Speed?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long would it actually take a Starfleet starship to travel from Earth to the Andromeda Galaxy? Andromeda is roughly 2.5 million light-years from Earth \u2014 an almost unimaginable distance. But what happens when we apply Star Trek\u2019s TNG-era warp scale to that journey? In this video, we travel from Warp 1 all the way [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}