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The featured image shows a spiral galaxy and a smaller oval galaxy in a dark starfield. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
特色图片展示了黑暗星场中的一个螺旋星系和一个较小的椭圆星系。有关更多详细信息，请参阅说明。
2023年11月13日 Andromeda over the Alps Image Credit & Copyright: Dzmitry Kananovich Explanation: Have you ever seen the Andromeda galaxy? Although M31 appears as a faint and fuzzy blob to the unaided eye, the light you see will be over two million years old, making it likely the oldest light you e
2022年10月21日 Andromeda in Southern Skies Image Credit & Copyright: Ian Griffin (Otago Museum) Explanation: Looking north from southern New Zealand, the Andromeda Galaxy never gets more than about five degrees above the horizon. As spring comes to the southern hemisphere, in late September Androm
2021年8月14日 Island Universe, Cosmic Sand Image Credit & Copyright: Marzena Rogozinska Explanation: Stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy are scattered through this eye-catching field of view. From the early hours after midnight on August 13, the 30 second exposure of the night sky over Busko-Zdroj,
2021年06月25日 Andromeda in a Single Shot Image Credit & Copyright: Miguel Claro (TWAN, Dark Sky Alqueva) Explanation: How far can you see? The Andromeda Galaxy, 2.5 million light years away, is the most distant object easily seen by the unaided eye. Other denizens of the night sky, like stars, cl
2020年10月13日 Mars, Pleiades, and Andromeda over Stone Lions Image Credit & Copyright: Cem Özkeser Explanation: Three very different — and very famous — objects were all captured in a single frame last month. On the upper left is the bright blue Pleiades, perhaps the most famous clust
2020 May 1 A View Toward M106 Image Credit & Copyright: Joonhwa Lee Explanation: Big, bright, beautiful spiral, Messier 106 dominates this cosmic vista. The nearly two degree wide telescopic field of view looks toward the well-trained constellation Canes Venatici, near the handle of the Big Dip
2020 April 30 Andromeda Island Universe Image Credit & Copyright: Yuzhe Xiao Explanation: The most distant object easily visible to the unaided eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy some two and a half million light-years away. But without a telescope, even this immense spiral galaxy – s
2020 March 26 Andromeda Station Composite Image Credit & Copyright: Ralf Rohner Explanation: This surreal picture isn’t from a special effects sci-fi movie. It is a digital composite of frames of the real Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, rising over a real mountain. Exposures tracking
