Messier 31: Amateur Image vs. Hubble Image
Messier 31 (M31) is a spiral galaxy located some 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. M31, known as the Andromeda Galaxy, is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. The bottom image was taken with an 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope using a 0.63x focal reducer and a DSLR Camera. The top image was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Image Credit: Amateur Image: Photographed by and used with permission of K. Hartnett; Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams and L.C. Johnson (University of Washington), the PHAT team and R. Gendler
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Image CreditAmateur Image: Photographed by and used with permission of K. Hartnett; Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams and L.C. Johnson (University of Washington), the PHAT team and R. Gendler
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