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Andromeda Galaxy: Here's everything we need to know about about our neighbour galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, visible to the naked eye and set to merge with our galaxy in the distant future The Nearest Large Spiral Galaxy: ...
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Panorama of our nearest galactic neighbor unveils hundreds of millions of stars

This is the largest photomosaic yet assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light years away from Earth. This mosaic ...
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NASA's Hubble provides bird's-eye view of Andromeda galaxy's ecosystem

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers don't ...
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Small, faint and 'unexpected in a lot of different ways': Astronomers make galactic discovery

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...
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NASA’s Hubble provides bird’s-eye view of Andromeda galaxy’s ecosystem

This is a wide-angle view of the distribution of known satellite galaxies orbiting the large Andromeda galaxy (M31), located 2.5 million light-years away. The Hubble Space Telescope was used to study ...