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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
NGC 7662 is a planetary nebula located in the northern constellation Andromeda.It is known as the Blue Snowball Nebula, Snowball Nebula, and Caldwell 22.This nebula was discovered October 6, 1784 by the German-born English astronomer William Herschel.
Andromeda's borders contain many visible distant galaxies. [11] The most famous deep-sky object in Andromeda is the spiral galaxy cataloged as Messier 31 (M31) or NGC 224 but known colloquially as the Andromeda Galaxy for the constellation. [54]
& Andromeda Galaxy: Sagittarius (centre) & Andromeda: 1923 Recognition of the Milky Way and the Andromeda nebula as two separate galaxies by Edwin Hubble. [citation needed] First Seyfert galaxy: NGC 1068 (M77) Cetus: 1943 (1908) The characteristics of Seyfert galaxies were first observed in M77 in 1908; however, Seyferts were defined as a class ...
Andromeda nebula may refer to: Andromeda Galaxy, a spiral galaxy in the Andromeda constellation; Andromeda, a 1957 science fiction novel by Ivan Efremov
The Andromeda–Milky Way collision is a galactic collision predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group—the Milky Way (which contains the Solar System and Earth) and the Andromeda Galaxy.
Isaac Roberts' magnum opus is generally considered to be his picture of the Great Nebula in Andromeda, shown in this plate. It was photographed on 29 December 1888. Astrophotography requires very long exposure times (sometimes an hour or more) to record faint objects on a photographic plate.
The Andromeda Nebula (Russian: Туманность Андромеды) is a 1967 Soviet science fiction film starring Sergei Stolyarov and directed by Yevgeni Sherstobitov at the Dovzhenko Film Studios.