A Night At The Beach - Andromeda
by Steve Harrington
Title
A Night At The Beach - Andromeda
Artist
Steve Harrington
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
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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Allan Van Gasbeck
Congratulations! Your outstanding artwork has been chosen as a FEATURE in the “Long Exposure and Night Photography ” group on Fine Art America — You are invited to post your featured image to the featured image discussion thread as a permanent place to continue to get exposure even after the image is no longer on the Home Page.