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Clarion Memo | 1994-06-24 | 582 b | 16 lines |
- M31 is the closest and hence brightest
- spiral galaxy. Known simply as the
- "Andromeda Galaxy, it easy naked-eye
- object, stretching across 4 degrees of
- space, and requiring very low power for
- good seeing. The galaxy contains an
- estimated 300 billion stars and is
- nearly 200,000 light years across
- making it one of the largest galaxies
- known. The whole mass slowly rotates
- around the central hub, the core
- takes about 11 million years while the
- outer arms 90 million years or more. Some
- say that M31 looks much like the
- Milky-Way would from the same distance.
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