The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged as Messier 31, M31, and NGC 224. 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 ...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. It was observed by Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi in 964 and cataloged by Charles Messier in 1764. M31 is the nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way and is on a …

2025年1月16日 · M31, also well-known as the Andromeda Galaxy, is the nearest major galaxy to our own, the Milky Way. In January of 2025, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope released this panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.

2024年9月5日 · Astronomers sometimes call the Andromeda galaxy by the name Messier 31, or M31. It was the 31st on a famous list of fuzzy sky objects compiled by the French astronomer Charles Messier...

2023年10月26日 · The Andromeda Galaxy, also called Messier 31 or M31, is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It is 2.5 million light years away from Earth and is the other major member of the Local Group...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest, large galaxy to the Milky Way. Here are my amateur atrophotography images using a small telescope.

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2015年1月5日 · The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird's-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic next-door neighbor.

2011年1月16日 · At approximately 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda galaxy, or M31, is our Milky Way’s largest galactic neighbor. The entire galaxy spans 260,000 light-years across — a distance so large, it took 11 different image segments stitched together to produce this view of the galaxy next door.

Messier 31 or M31 (also designated NGC 224) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 3.4 and its angular diameter is 178x63 arc-minutes. M31 lies at an estimated distance of 2.9 million light years.