From Bebelina's Neck of the Woods

Discussion in 'Astronomy, Exobiology, & Cosmology' started by wet1, Feb 20, 2002.

  1. wet1 Wanderer Registered Senior Member

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    M31: The Andromeda Galaxy
    Credit and Copyright: Jason Ware
    Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Our Galaxy is thought to look much like Andromeda. Together these two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The diffuse light from Andromeda is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that compose it. The several distinct stars that surround Andromeda's image are actually stars in our Galaxy that are well in front of the background object. Andromeda is frequently referred to as M31 since it is the 31st object on Messier's list of diffuse sky objects. M31 is so distant it takes about 2 million years for light to reach us from there. Much about M31 remains unknown, including why the center contains two nuclei.
     
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  3. kmguru Staff Member

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    Great picture
     
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  5. Bebelina kospla.com Valued Senior Member

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    Wow, thanks for posting that, beautiful!

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  7. kmguru Staff Member

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    Would not it be interesting to find out one of these days that, you could be in that neck of the woods in a few days by travelling through another dimension????

    Bebelina's very own Dimensional ship.....

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  8. Bebelina kospla.com Valued Senior Member

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    Yes, I have to create one of those.

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  9. LIGHTBEING Registered Senior Member

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    Beautiful
     

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