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‘Groundbreaking’ Hubble images reveal Andromeda galaxy’s giant halo – Inverse
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has mapped the halo that surrounds the Andromeda galaxy, providing the most comprehensive look at a galaxy halo to date.
Located 2.5 million light years away, the Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbor.
The spiral galaxy is also the most distant object you can see with the naked eye from Earth, making it a good test subject for studying these massive conglomerations of gas and stars.
In a new study, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda’s halo the envelope of gas that surrounds the galaxy in unprecedented detail.
The Milky Way and Andromeda are very close, on the cosmic scale, and they ar…
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