Monday, September 7, 2020

The Andromeda Clique

Andromeda (M31), M32 and M110, DSLR on telescope tracking mount.
Andromeda galaxy and its two smaller cousins captured using an SLR camera and a zoom lens from my backyard.

The swarm of stars that look like the background is actually the foreground, all of them within our Milky Way. While we can’t make out any individual stars in Andromeda here, two astronomers with inputs from a third, studied it and happened to change our understanding of the universe and our place in it forever.