A Night At The Beach - Andromeda bw

by Steve Harrington

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A Night At The Beach - Andromeda bw

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Steve Harrington

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Looking north, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies soar above the shore Most people are familiar with the "milky" swath of millions of stars that we see looking across our 100,000 light year-wide Milky Way Galaxy, but few have seen the Andromeda galaxy. It is the frisbee-shaped disc in the upper right of frame and the scale and distance to it are nearly incomprehensible. Below it, The Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters, is rising above the horizon.

The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away and is about 200,000 light-years across. It is believed to contain about 400 billion stars. In terms of the universe, it is a nearby neighbor to our galaxy, yet the light we are looking at began coming to us 2.5 million years ago! Whew!

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February 19th, 2019

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