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  2. Andromeda Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    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 . Andromeda has a D 25 isophotal diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs (152,000 light-years ) [ 8 ] and is approximately 765 kpc (2.5 million light-years ...

  3. Ohio State University Radio Observatory - Wikipedia

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    The Ohio State University Radio Observatory was a Kraus-type (after its inventor John D. Kraus) radio telescope located on the grounds of the Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio from 1963 to 1998.

  4. List of nearest stars - Wikipedia

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    The Orion Arm is one of the spiral arms of our Milky Way galaxy. Astrometrics ... Andromeda: 01 h 20 m 04.561 s +47° 39′ 46.56″ TYC 6760–1510–1 2.46 +0.19

  5. Andromeda (constellation) - Wikipedia

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    The constellation's most obvious deep-sky object is the naked-eye Andromeda Galaxy (M31, also called the Great Galaxy of Andromeda), the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way and one of the brightest Messier objects. Several fainter galaxies, including M31's companions M110 and M32, as well as the more distant NGC 891, lie within Andromeda.

  6. List of galaxies - Wikipedia

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    Andromeda Galaxy: Andromeda: Andromeda, which is shortened from "Andromeda Galaxy", gets its name from the area of the sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda. [citation needed] Andromeda is the closest big galaxy to the Milky Way and is expected to collide

  7. List of Andromeda's satellite galaxies - Wikipedia

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    The Andromeda Galaxy with M110 at upper left and M32 to the right of the core. The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) has satellite galaxies just like the Milky Way. Orbiting M31 are at least 13 dwarf galaxies: the brightest and largest is M110, which can be seen with a basic telescope. The second-brightest and closest one to M31 is M32. The other galaxies ...

  8. NGC 13 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 13 is a spiral galaxy [1] in the constellation Andromeda. It is estimated to be about 220 million light-years (66 Megaparsecs) away from the Sun. [1] It was discovered on November 26, 1790, by William Herschel. [3]

  9. Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Gigapixels of Andromeda, is a 2015 composite photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy produced by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is 1.5 billion pixels in size, and is the largest image ever taken by the telescope. [1] At the time of its release to the public, the image was one of the largest ever ...