Astronomy Digital Picture – 16 seconds, ISO 400, 52.6mm f/3.6, on 14 Oct 2006 11:41PM, Bangalore.
16 Jan 2007
Andromeda galaxy is also the most distant object visible to the naked eye! Andromeda Galaxy is as far as 2.3 million light years, meaning the light that you are seeing left the galaxy 2.3 million years ago!
It the nearest major galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy, its also called M31. Due to its vast size (almost twice as big as ours) and luminosity it is still visible to the naked eye.
Andromeda has over 300 billion stars, and a few dwarf satellite galaxies.
Tomorrow’s picture – Triangulum constellation
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