As far as deep-sky astrophotography targets go, M31 is actually one of theeasiertargets to capture early on. It may not look like an image taken with theHubble Telescope, but it will most certainly impress your friends. In this article, I’ll cover the facts, observational history, and lo...
Andromeda is about 260,000 light-years wide, according to NASA, making it the largest galaxy in the Local Group. However, its mass is roughly comparable to or even less than that of the Milky Way, according to NASA JPL Scientists think the galaxy could be anywhere from 5 and 10 billion...
Andromeda Galaxy Facts The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest large galaxy to theMilky Wayand is one of a few galaxies that can be seen unaided from the Earth. In approximately 4.5 billion years the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are expected to collide and the result will be a gi...
Learning practice- use what you know to answer questions about how long it takes for the light of the Andromeda Galaxy to reach Earth and what Edwin Hubble discovered about the galaxy Additional Learning The lesson called Andromeda Galaxy Facts: Lesson for Kids will help you learn more about th...
To start, select all of your light frames (the actual pictures) by clicking theOpen picture filesbutton on the top left of the screen. This is where you will choose all of the images on the Andromeda Galaxy you would like to stack. If you have organized your images and folders neatly,...
Andromeda galaxy- a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Andromeda that is visible to the naked eye spiral galaxy,spiral nebula- a galaxy having a spiral structure; arms containing younger stars spiral out from old stars at the center
Supernova 1987A: facts and fancies. (includes related article on M31, the Great Galaxy in Andromeda)Waldrop, M. Mitchell
The Andromeda Galaxy has a past involving collisions with and accretion of other galaxies. Its peculiar close companion, M32, shows a structure that indicates that it was formerly a normal, more massive galaxy that lost much of its outer parts and possibly all of its globular clusters to M31 ...