uniqueness in the world: NASA Releases New Sightings Andromeda

NASA scientists recently released the appearance of nearby galaxies with the galaxy where humans live, the Milky Way. Andromeda or Messier 31, the name of the galaxy.

The picture was similar recording stars, the labyrinth, including the billions of stars and planets in it. Dominance of blue and gold adorn the Andromeda.

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Page Daily Mail reported this photo Andromeda is one of the thousands of photos shot super cangih NASA telescope. There are at least 2.5 million images of space including 33 thousand asteroids between Mars and Jupiter that had taken of NASA.

"This data proves we have many neighbors," said Pete Schultz, a universe of Brown University, Tuesday, April 18.

Since 2009, NASA launched the WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer). Infrared radiation telescope was made for 200 million Euros or equivalent to Rp 2.5 trillion. WISE is capable of capturing space objects as far as 2.5 million light years.

Wikipedia notes have a structure similar to the Andromeda galaxy, the spiral-shaped. The distance is about 2.5 million light years.

This galaxy contains about one trillion stars, and moved closer to the Milky Way with speeds around 300 km / sec.

You can see these galaxies are visible in September, October, November. It is located in the northern hemisphere skies, about 41 degrees to the north of the equator.

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