ANDROMEDA

ANDROMEDA (M31 or NGC 224) The Andromeda Galaxy, once known as The Great Nebula in Andromeda, is one of the largest members of what is called the Local Group. It is a spiral galaxy closest to our solar system, and is visible as a faint, misty spot in the Andromeda constellation. It is also classified as M31. This classification comes from it being the 31st object in a list first compiled by the 18th century French …

…when the two galaxies collide; mostly brilliant blue clusters, and hundreds of times more intense than the star clusters already existing. After the collision, Andromeda is thought to perchance take a U-turn lasting approximately 100 million years. "Any hint of the Milky Way and Andromeda as majestic spiral galaxies will be gone." (AstroFile). Basic information on the Andromeda Galaxy: Right Ascension 00 : 42.7 (h:m) Declination +41 : 16 (deg:m) Distance 2200 (kly) Visual Brightness 3.4 (mag) Apparent Dimension 178x63 (arc min)