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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 ...
Fifth brightest star in the night sky. [72] Altair (α Aquilae) 2.01 × 1.57 [105] Twelfth brightest star in the night sky. Sirius (α Canis Majoris A) 1.713 [106] AD The brightest star in the night sky. Rigil Kentaurus (α Centauri A) 1.2175 [107] AD Third brightest star in the night sky. Sun: 1: The largest object in the Solar System.
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]
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 Galaxy: 15.6 [12] [DMM2009] J004406.32+420131: 2,500,000 F2Ia ... the brightest star in Earth's night sky at each period within the last or next 5 million ...
Listed below are galaxies with diameters greater than 700,000 light-years. This list uses the mean cosmological parameters of the Lambda-CDM model based on results from the 2015 Planck collaboration, where H 0 = 67.74 km/s/Mpc, Ω Λ = 0.6911, and Ω m = 0.3089. [3]
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 ...
“The clear air and remote location make it easy for visitors to gaze into the night skies and see thousands of stars. Stargazers are known to see the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, and ...