Friday, February 3, 2012



Andromeda

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Moonset Over Pleasant Bay

by Father Sky

It was a sky for the imagination. In the early evening last week, the sky illuminating the unaided eye was perhaps even more illuminating to the mind's eye. The unaided eye saw clouds framing the Moon setting over a calm and reflective bay, spruce trees lining the nearby shores, the Pleiades open star cluster (M45) [...]

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Edge-on Spiral Galaxy NGC 891

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This beautiful cosmic portrait features NGC 891. The spiral galaxy spans about 100 thousand light-years and is seen almost exactly edge-on from our perspective. In fact, about 30 million light-years distant in the constellation Andromeda, NGC 891 looks a lot like our Milky Way. At first glance, it has a flat, thin, galactic disk and [...]

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WISE Infrared Andromeda

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This sharp, wide-field view features infrared light from the spiral Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Dust heated by Andromeda's young stars is shown in yellow and red, while its older population of stars appears as a bluish haze. The false-color skyscape is a mosaic of images from NASA's new Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite. With over [...]

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Andromeda

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Abbreviation: And Genitive: Andromedae Translation: Princess of Ethiopia or the Chained Lady Position in the Sky Right Ascension: 1 hour Declination: 40 degrees Visible between latitudes 90 and -40 degrees Best seen in November (at 9:00 PM) Named Stars ALPHERATZ (Alpha And) MIRACH (Beta And) ALMAAK (Gamma 1 And) Adhil (Xi And) Messier Objects M31 [...]

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