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This week's space fact is about our neighboring galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy. Scientists think this galaxy has a planet, if so, it will be the first exoplanet discovered in another galaxy.

How our neighbouring Andromeda galaxy will appear from Earth, approaching our galaxy Milky Way over a span of several billion years into the future

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Andromeda in all her show stopping glory, a stunning capture by Rogelio Bernal Andreo.

Neptune snapped by Voyager 2, twenty five years ago

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A dazzling capture of vivid space-scape by Casey Good. It spans across nebula rich star fields along the plane of our Milky Way. To the north lies the royal northern constellation Cepheus. To the left of centre is (sh) 155 — the Cave Nebula. At VDB 155 at lower right are the Dusty blue reflection nebulae.

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WISE helps map the beautiful spiral arms of our galaxy Milky Way.

WISE mission – NASA

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The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, recall the pattern at the center of a sunflower.

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Majestic Godzilla galaxy or UGC 2885, 2.5 million times wider than our home galaxy Milky Way, with one trillion stars in its crib, captured by Hubble

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Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades lies about 400 light years away toward the constellation of Taurus (Bull).

Picture Credit & Copyright: Stanislav Volskiy

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South Of Carina Nebula

With natal dust clouds in silhouette against glowing atomic gas, this colorful and chaotic vista lies within one of the largest star forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy, the Great Carina Nebula. The telescopic close-up frames a field of view about 80 light-years across, a little south and east of Eta Carinae, the nebula's most energetic and enigmatic star. Captured under suburban skies improved during national restrictions, a composite of narrowband image data was used to create the final image. In it, characteristic emission from the nebula's ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms is mapped to red, green and blue hues, a color palette also popular in Hubble Space Telescope. The celestial landscape of bright ridges of emission bordered by cool, obscuring dust lies about 7,500 light-years away toward the southern constellation Carina.

Image Credit & Copyright: Ignacio Diaz Bobillo

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Galaxy Wars: M81 and M82 

These two galaxies are far far away, 12 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation of the Great Bear. On the left, with grand spiral arms and bright yellow core is spiral galaxy M81, some 100,000 light-years across. On the right marked by red gas and dust clouds, is irregular galaxy M82. The pair have been locked in gravitational combat for a billion years. Their last go-round lasted about 100 million years and likely raised density waves rippling around M81, resulting in the richness of M81's spiral arms. M82 was left with violent star forming regions and colliding gas clouds so energetic the galaxy glows in X-rays. In the next few billion years, their continuing gravitational encounters will result in a merger, and a single galaxy will remain.

Image Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager, Torsten Grossmann

The Ion Tail of New Comet SWAN

Image Credit & Copyright: Gerald Rhemann

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Galaxy M33//NGC 598 grabbed by Hubble

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Simeis 147: Supernova Remnant 

The supernova remnant has an estimated age of about 40,000 years, meaning light from the massive stellar explosion first reached Earth 40,000 years ago. But the expanding remnant is not the only aftermath. The cosmic catastrophe also left behind a spinning neutron star or pulsar, all that remains of the original star's core.

Image Credit & Copyright: David Lindemann

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 

Image Credit: Hubble Heritage Team,ESA, NASA

Boomerang Nebula – the coldest known place in Space, remastered.

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M7 : Open star cluster in Scorpius

Image credit & Copyright : Lorand Fenyes

The Pelican Nebula (IC 5067/5070) an H II region associated with the North American Nebula in the Constellation Cygnus snapped by Don Bryden

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Jupiter and Ganymede in near – UV and blue, jointly captured by Juno aircraft, remastered by Judy Schmidt

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IC 1805 – The Heart Nebula, taken on September the 11th, 2019

Image Credit & Copyright : Bray Falls