The Night Sky #14 - M31 Andromeda Galaxy Traditional Cache

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My main hobby since I was 5 years old as been astronomy.

A great series for geokids and geoadults alike. So sit back, hold tight and enjoy the journey.

The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs from Earth. It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and was often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts. It received its name from the area of the sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which was named after the mythological princess Andromeda. In the Catalogue of Named Galaxies, it is called Propinquus Andromedae, or the neighbor galaxy.

Age: 9 billion years
Number of stars: 1,000 billion
Apparent magnitude: 3.440
Apparent mass: 1.23 trillion solar-mass
Distance to Earth: 778,000 parsec

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