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Andromeda over the Alps

Image Credit & Copyright: Dzmitry Kananovich

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APOD: 2023 November 13 – Andromeda over the Alps

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StarkRG
StarkRG
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If the full scale of Andromeda was visible to the naked eye, our entire mythology would have been drastically different. Planets-shmamets, the big oval thing with a bright centre is obviously a major god.
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Christopher Schardl
Christopher Schardl
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Is there another spiral galaxy much smaller (farther away) just to the right of it? If so, what galaxy?
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Sibshops
Sibshops
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How did they get it so big? Or is it taken from a telescope really far away?
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Michael Porter
Michael Porter
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The idea that we are looking 2 million years into the past is very cool. The fact that the galaxy is tilted from our point of view makes the left side (in this picture) about 150,000 years older than the right side.

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