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Annotated Close-up of Andromeda

Annotated Close-up of Andromeda
In this detailed image of the Hubble Space Telescope M31 PHAT mosaic image, several object types are labeled, including dust lanes, stellar clusters, Milky Way stars, and star-forming regions. This image is a small section of the full mosaic that includes near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared observations obtained with the Wide Field Camera 3
  • Object Name
    Object NameA name or catalog number that astronomers use to identify an astronomical object.
    M31, Andromeda Galaxy, NGC 224
  • Release Date
    January 5, 2015
  • Science Release
    Hubble’s High-Definition Panoramic View of the Andromeda Galaxy
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  • Credit
    Illustration: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI/AURA); Science: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and L.C. Johnson (University of Washington), and the PHAT team

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