The
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope captured this image of the Andromeda
galaxy (Messier 31), a giant spiral galaxy. It lies only two million
light years away from our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Andromeda and the
Milky Way match each other roughly in size, and both exceed the
dimensions of the few dozens of irregular and dwarf galaxies than make
up the rest of our local group of galaxies.
Credit: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope/Coelum
Credit: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope/Coelum
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