NASA | Take a "Swift" Tour of the Andromeda Galaxy

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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. Between May 25 and July 26, 2008, Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) acquired 330 images of M31 at wavelengths of 192.8, 224.6, and 260 nanometers. The images represent a total exposure time of 24 hours. Some 20,000 ultraviolet sources are visible in the image, including M32, a small galaxy in orbit around M31. Dense clusters of hot, young, blue stars sparkle in the disk beyond the galaxy's smooth, redder central bulge. Star clusters are especially plentiful along a ring about 150,000 light-years across.

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[Argibon]

The over due phone bill seems pointless given the grand scale of things. lol

[TheFlutification]

I come to a youtube video about the most beautiful thing you can see in the sky, the Andromeda galaxy I was even named after and all I see in the comments are arguments about religion. Just SHUT UP, all of you.

[12345hallam]

@Gamebanga i lol'd

[Gamebanga]

@12345hallam The universe is estimated to be around 12,000,000,000 years old and humans are estimated to be around 200,000 years old. To put it simply... we ain't shit! On the other hand, I do believe that we were genetically altered by something a few thousand years ago, and that humans witnessed ETs and started calling them Gods. Replace any figure in the Holy Bible with an ET and it all makes sense. 7 billion people are worshiping aliens and they don't even know it.

[classysasafrassy]

@12345hallam REALLY?

[12345hallam]

intier... entire... that's no fucking typo rofl. See this is what I mean, full of shit. Reading what you type is the only type of hell.

[gamemaker1234]

@12345hallam That was a typo now hit me with a question i will answer it

[12345hallam]

@classysasafrassy science can't prove he doesn't exist because he ISN'T THERE. You people need to remove your head from your ass because all that comes from your mouths is shit.

[12345hallam]

@gamemaker1234 I'm not going to argue with someone who can't even spell entire...