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antirez
on Dec 5, 2013
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Largest true-color photograph of the night sky eve...
Impressive to see how big (near) the Andromeda galaxy is compared to all the rest.
cellover
on Dec 5, 2013
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Andromeda looks actually really big! It reminds of this post on APOD showing the apparent size compared to the moon:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061228.html
Mind = blown.
alok-g
on Dec 5, 2013
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Wow! I had seen Andromeda before as a casual star-gazer and still had not realized this, just as the cited NASA webpage points out.
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