https://hgastro.github.io/tags/m32/Recent content in M32 on Suburban Backyard Astro SightsHugo -- gohugo.ioenhgastroblog@gmail.comhgastroblog@gmail.comAll images and content on this website © 2025 Howard GramsFri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://hgastro.github.io/posts/2024-01-19-andromeda-galaxy-revisited/Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000hgastroblog@gmail.comhttps://hgastro.github.io/posts/2024-01-19-andromeda-galaxy-revisited/<p>The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint smudge on a dark moonless night; it is impressive in a small telescope; but it takes a long exposure photograph to reveal its full extent and structure.</p>https://hgastro.github.io/posts/2020-05-29-the-andromeda-galaxy/Fri, 29 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000hgastroblog@gmail.comhttps://hgastro.github.io/posts/2020-05-29-the-andromeda-galaxy/<p>If you&rsquo;ve ever seen a picture of another galaxy, odds are that it was of this one, the Andromeda galaxy, also known as M31. At a distance of 2.54 million light years from us, it is closer and hence appears larger than any other galaxy (apart from the two Magellanic Clouds in the southern hemisphere that are small satellites of our Milky Way). And it is on a collision course with us and will collide with our Milky Way in about four billion years.</p>