Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...

background galaxies seen much farther away, and photobombing by a couple bright foreground stars that are actually inside our Milky Way B - NGC 206 the most conspicuous star cloud in Andromeda C ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda galaxy ... that this so-called "spiral nebula" was actually very far ...

At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula ... but there was no data to support ...

Beneath that is a selection of intriguing sights within the mosaic, labeled A through E: A: Star clusters in Andromeda, foreground stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and two background galaxies far ...

The first attested mention of a nebula comes from the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, who wrote in 964 about a ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent Andromeda galaxy ... that this so-called 'spiral nebula' was actually very far ...

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The Andromeda nebula, M31, was a prominent example. It’s visible to the naked eye from a dark site. Astronomers as far back as the mid-18th century had speculated that some nebulae might be remote ...