By September (northern autumn) the Andromeda Galaxy is high enough in the sky to observe starting at nightfall and watch it travel across the sky all night long. This is a great time to photograph the Andromeda Galaxy, as it is wise to shoot objects that are as close to the zenith as ...
the brightest galaxy in the northern sky and one of the closest to our galaxy. It is visible to the naked eye as a weakly shining misty “patch” in the line of the constellation Andromeda. The angular dimensions, measured on photographs, are approximately 200’ x 90’, which correspond ...
It’s possible that you’ve seen theAndromeda galaxy(M31) without even realizing it. The massive spiral galaxy appears as a grey, spindle-shaped blob in the night sky, visible with the naked eye in the right conditions. It’s the nearest major galaxy to ours, and astronomers have studied ...
IN a recent article1, Ohio State University maps covering 300 square degrees of the sky surrounding the Andromeda Nebula (M31) were presented for two frequencies, 600 and 1,415 Mc/s. The radio isophotes close to M31 on the higher resolution (1,415 Mc/s) map are of particular interest an...
"It's amazing that we can look out at the sky and read billions of years of another galaxy's history as written in the motions of its stars." Joan R. Najita, NOIRLab. It was designed to measure the spectra of over 40 billion distant galaxies and quasars to map the large-scale str...
they appeared much smaller in the sky. Only onequasarcould be detected behind each faraway galaxy, providing only one light anchor point to map their halo size and structure. With its close proximity to Earth and its correspondingly large footprint on the sky, Andromeda provides a far more ext...
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The monster collision between our Milky Way and fellow spiral galaxy Andromeda will occur about 4.5 billion years from now, rather than in 3.9 billion years.
Here we are in a previously unexplored galaxy and yet we’re still surrounded by the same character tropes, presented in the same way that big, dumb blockbusters have relied on sinceCommandomade it hip to enjoy trash. This approach to character presentation isn’t a way to foster expansive,...
The primary concern of this work is the development of NIR observation and reduction methods to recover a uniform surface brightness map across the 3x1 degree disk of M31. This necessitates sky-target nodding across 27 WIRCam fields. Two sky-target nodding strategies were tested, and we find...