Galactic friends and neighbors

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Jul 26, 2011 4:00 PMNov 19, 2019 8:42 PM

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Every now and again, a Hubble image will kick me back with a wave of nostalgia. Most Hubble pictures are of specific objects with which I'm not familiar, some galaxy or cluster I've never even heard of. Sometimes the great observatory is pointed at a target I do know from my own youth as an amateur astronomer, something I've seen myself through my telescope. And sometimes it's something with a more personal connection, a galaxy I've actually studied, and which reminds me of old friends, figuratively and literally... like this incredible picture of the halo of the Andromeda Galaxy:

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