17/04/2022
The Andromeda Galaxy (Andromeda Nebula, M 31, NGC 224, PGC 2557) is a spiral galaxy observed in the constellation Andromeda. Its radius is about 31 kiloparsecs, twice that of our galaxy, and it contains several times more stars than the Milky Way. The distance from our Galaxy to it is about 800 kiloparsecs, which makes it the closest of the large galaxies, as well as the largest galaxy in the Local Group. Its mass is approximately equal to the mass of the Milky Way or even less.