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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) from Earth. The galaxy's name stems from the area of Earth's sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which itself is named after the princess who was the wife of Perseus in Greek ...
Andromeda as it appears in the night sky, with the superimposed figure. α And (Alpheratz) is the brightest star in this constellation. It is an A0p class [10] binary star with an overall apparent visual magnitude of 2.1 and a luminosity of 96 L ☉. [24] It is 97 light-years from Earth. [25]
Fifth brightest star in the night sky. [69] Altair (α Aquilae) 2.01 × 1.57 [102] Twelfth brightest star in the night sky. Sirius (α Canis Majoris A) 1.713 [103] AD The brightest star in the night sky. Rigil Kentaurus (α Centauri A) 1.2175 [104] AD Third brightest star in the night sky. Sun: 1: The largest object in the Solar System.
NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an empire of stars, that is the Milky Way galaxy's closest neighbor. This photo shows the Milky Way as seen from Black Balsam, mountain range ...
Andromeda (constellation), a region of the Earth's night sky The Andromeda Galaxy , an astronomical object within the constellation Andromeda may also refer to:
As the second brightest star in the northern sky, Vega has names in numerous cultures. In Chinese, it is known as 織女 ('weaving girl') from the Qi Xi love story. Vega is one of the vertices of the Summer Triangle asterism. /ˈviːɡə, ˈveɪɡə/ Andromeda: 14 Andromedae A: Veritate: IAU new 2015 Latin for 'where there is truth'. [26 ...
Known as the M31 Galaxy, Andromeda is the closest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way, located about 2.5 million light-years away. It contains over a trillion stars, and is one of the few galaxies ...
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 ...