Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  Andromeda galaxy  ·  Great Nebula in Andromeda  ·  M 110  ·  M 31  ·  M 32  ·  NGC 205  ·  NGC 206  ·  NGC 221  ·  NGC 224
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Andromeda Galaxy

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Andromeda Galaxy

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If the Great Orion nebula is the king, surely the Andromeda Galaxy represents the queen of celestial objects. It is a spiral galaxy belonging to the local group, 2.5 million light-years away from us, and is the most distant object visible even with the naked eye. It contains about one billion stars and has a size approximately similar to the Milky Way. His motion is approaching our Milky Way with a speed of 400000 km / h

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Andromeda Galaxy, Valerio Avitabile