Everything We Know About The Andromeda Galaxy
Andromeda is 2.5 million years away and yet when we look up at the night sky chances are you can see it with your naked eye. What do we know about this neighboring galaxy? Read More: Andromeda...
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Our nearest neighbor Andromeda lies 2.5 million years away, yet we can still see it with thenaked eye here on Earth. Have you ever wondered what’s going on in the galaxy next door?Hey everyone Julia here for DNewsAndromeda gets its name from a beautiful princess in Greek mythology, whose name means rulerof men. Humankind has seen this fuzzy patch in the sky for centuries but no one was surewhat it was. Until 1923 when Edwin Hubble figured out that it wasn’t just a cloudof dust in our galaxy but a cluster of stars much, much further away. At least ten timesas far as the stars at the edges of our own galaxy. This discovery rocked the world andchanged our view of the universe forever. We no longer thought that Milky Way was theentire universe. Now we knew there coul...
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Our nearest neighbor Andromeda lies 2.5 million years away, yet we can still see it with thenaked eye here on Earth. Have you ever wondered what’s going on in the galaxy next door?Hey everyone Julia here for DNewsAndromeda gets its name from a beautiful princess in Greek mythology, whose name means rulerof men. Humankind has seen this fuzzy patch in the sky for centuries but no one was surewhat it was. Until 1923 when Edwin Hubble figured out that it wasn’t just a cloudof dust in our galaxy but a cluster of stars much, much further away. At least ten timesas far as the stars at the edges of our own galaxy. This discovery rocked the world andchanged our view of the universe forever. We no longer thought that Milky Way was theentire universe. Now we knew there coul...
