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Ilustración de M31 Halo sobre terreno rocoso
At a distance of 2.5 million light-years, the majestic spiral Andromeda galaxy it is so close to us that it appears as a cigar-shaped smudge of light high in the autumn sky. If its gaseous halo could be seen with the naked eye, it would be about three times the width of the Big D...
- Fecha
- Jan 1, 2020
- Misión
- Hubble Space Telescope
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- hubblesite-images-2020-46-4735-image
At a distance of 2.5 million light-years, the majestic spiral Andromeda galaxy it is so close to us that it appears as a cigar-shaped smudge of light high in the autumn sky. If its gaseous halo could be seen with the naked eye, it would be about three times the width of the Big Dipper—easily the biggest feature on the nighttime sky.
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NASA, ESA, J. DePasquale and E. Wheatley (STScI) and Z. LevayMás imágenes de este periodo
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