Swift's UV portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy (2009)
2009 · Television · 3 min
Synopsis
NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31. Also known as the Andromeda Galaxy, M31 is the largest and closest such galaxy to our own. It's more than 220,000 light-years across and lies 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda.
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- Running time
- 3 minutes
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- rss-388657main_A_Swift_Tour_of_M31_320x240