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Andromeda Galaxy
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, located about 2.5 million light-years away. It is a spiral galaxy similar in structure to our own.
Source: science.nasa.gov
APODs including "Andromeda Galaxy"
100 Million Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy
06/01/2015
The Infrared Visible Andromeda
13/12/2014
Milky Way over Moon Valley
05/12/2014
From the Temple of the Sun to the Temple of the Moon
07/10/2014
NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda
25/09/2014
NGC 5101 and Friends
08/02/2014
The Gegenschein Over Chile
14/01/2014
Andromeda on the Rocks
27/09/2013
M31 versus M33
26/09/2013
A Flight through the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Video
27/08/2013
The Colliding Spiral Galaxies of Arp 271
25/08/2013
The Waterfall and the World at Night
17/05/2013
Galaxy Collisions: Simulation vs Observations
Video
14/05/2013
Comet of the North
05/04/2013
Comet PANSTARRS and the Andromeda Galaxy
03/04/2013
Herschel's Andromeda
02/02/2013
The Fornax Cluster of Galaxies
11/01/2013
M33: Triangulum Galaxy
20/12/2012
The Gegenschein Over Chile
02/12/2012
Spiral Galaxy NGC 4038 in Collision
12/08/2012
Milky Way Galaxy Doomed: Collision with Andromeda Pending
04/06/2012
GALEX: The Andromeda Galaxy
18/05/2012
Arp 272
22/09/2011
A Starry Night of Iceland
17/05/2011
Peculiar Galaxies of Arp 273
21/04/2011
Milky Way Over Switzerland
21/02/2011
The Once and Future Stars of Andromeda
20/01/2011
M33: Triangulum Galaxy
03/12/2010
Atoms-for-Peace Galaxy Collision
16/11/2010
Ultraviolet Andromeda
27/10/2010