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  2. Andromeda Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged as Messier 31 , M31 , and NGC 224 . Andromeda has a D 25 isophotal diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs (152,000 light-years ) [ 8 ] and is approximately 765 kpc (2.5 million light-years ...

  3. Andromeda (constellation) - Wikipedia

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    The most famous deep-sky object in Andromeda is the spiral galaxy cataloged as Messier 31 (M31) or NGC 224 but known colloquially as the Andromeda Galaxy for the constellation. [53] M31 is one of the most distant objects visible to the naked eye, 2.2 million light-years from Earth (estimates range up to 2.5 million light-years). [ 54 ]

  4. Andromeda–Milky Way collision - Wikipedia

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    The Andromeda–Milky Way collision is a galactic collision predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group —the Milky Way (which contains the Solar System and Earth) and the Andromeda Galaxy. [1][2][3][4][5] The stars involved are sufficiently far apart that it is improbable that any of them ...

  5. List of Andromeda's satellite galaxies - Wikipedia

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    The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) has satellite galaxies just like the Milky Way. Orbiting M31 are at least 13 dwarf galaxies: the brightest and largest is M110, which can be seen with a basic telescope. The second-brightest and closest one to M31 is M32. The other galaxies are fainter, and were mostly discovered starting from the 1970s.

  6. Messier 110 - Wikipedia

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    The Andromeda Galaxy and its satellite galaxy, Messier 110, to the bottom-right of the center About half of the Andromeda's satellite galaxies are orbiting it along a highly flattened plane, with 14 out of 16 following the same sense of rotation.

  7. Messier 32 - Wikipedia

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    Messier 32. Messier 32 (also known as M32 and NGC 221) is a dwarf "early-type" galaxy about 2,650,000 light-years (810,000 pc) from the Solar System, appearing in the constellation Andromeda. M32 is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and was discovered by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1749. The galaxy is a prototype of the relatively ...

  8. Voyager Golden Record - Wikipedia

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    The golden record's location on Voyager (middle-bottom-left) The Voyager Golden Records are two identical phonograph records which were included aboard the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. [ 1 ] The records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent ...

  9. SN 1885A - Wikipedia

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    Followed by. SN 1895B. [ edit on Wikidata] SN 1885A (also S Andromedae) was a supernova in the Andromeda Galaxy, the only one seen in that galaxy so far by astronomers. It was the first supernova ever seen outside the Milky Way, [ 3 ] though it was not appreciated at the time how far away it was. It is also known as "Supernova 1885".

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