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Spy on the Milky Way’s most famous neighbor

The Andromeda Galaxy is both the biggest and farthest you can see with the naked eye. It’s 2.5 million light years away and 220,000 light years wide. Of course, a galaxy is a thing made up of things. Andromeda contains hundreds of millions of stars. Continue reading

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