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Andromeda Galaxy. A visible light image of the Andromeda Galaxy. Messier 32 is to the left of the galactic nucleus and Messier 110 is at the bottom right. 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.
Image title: At approximately 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy, or M31, is our Milky Way's largest galactic neighbor. The entire galaxy spans 260,000 light-years across - a distance so large, it took 10 GALEX images stitched together to produce this view of the galaxy next door.
The background image of Andromeda was taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in ultraviolet light. Andromeda is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way but larger in size. It lies 2.5 million light-years away in the Andromeda constellation.
Description Andromeda galaxy Ssc2005-20a1.jpg. English: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured stunning infrared views of the famous Andromeda galaxy to reveal insights that were only hinted at in visible light. This Spitzer's 24-micron mosaic is the sharpest image ever taken of the dust in another spiral galaxy.
Arp 273 is a pair of interacting galaxies, 300 million light years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was first described in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, compiled by Halton Arp in 1966. [5] The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, is about five times more massive than the smaller galaxy. [6]
Mayall II, also known as NGC-224-G1, SKHB 1, GSC 2788:2139, HBK 0-1, M31GC J003247+393440 or Andromeda's Cluster, is a globular cluster orbiting M31, the Andromeda Galaxy . It is located 130,000 light-years (40 kpc) [3] from the Andromeda Galaxy's galactic core, and is the brightest [3] (by absolute magnitude) globular cluster in the Local ...
Database references. SIMBAD. data. Delta Andromedae, Latinized from δ Andromedae, is a triple star [12] system in the northern constellation of Andromeda. The system is visible to the naked eye as a point of light with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 3.28. [2] Based upon parallax measurements, it is located at a distance of ...
Alpheratz / ælˈfɪəræts /, [13] [14] or Alpha Andromedae ( α Andromedae, abbreviated Alpha And or α And ), is a binary star 97 light-years from Earth and is the brightest star in the constellation of Andromeda when Mirach (β Andromedae) undergoes its periodical dimming. Immediately northeast of the constellation of Pegasus, it is the ...