Unveiling the Andromeda Galaxy’s true nature

Over the course of human history, perhaps no single object in the night sky has drawn more attention than the Andromeda Galaxy, which the 10th-century Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dubbed a “nebulous smear.” For centuries, the fuzzy object nestled in the night sky between her mythological parents, Cepheus and Cassiopeia, and winged Pegasus heldContinue reading “Unveiling the Andromeda Galaxy’s true nature”
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