5 Scary Facts About The Andromeda Galaxy HD

SUBSCRIBE HERE ➜ http://bit.ly/AstroBytes INSTAGRAM ➜ https://www.instagram.com/astrobytez/ FACEBOOK ➜ https://www.facebook.com/astrobyte TWITTER ➜ https://www.twitter.com/astrobytez If it was possible to travel anywhere in the galaxy, the next step in our epic journey would be travelling to our nearest major galaxy, which is Andromeda. It is 2.5 million light years away from Earth. It is the most distant naked eye object you can see in the night sky. Although several dozen minor galaxies lie closer to our Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy is the closest large spiral galaxy to ours. It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and it gets its name from the area of the sky from which it appears the constellation of Andromeda, which was named after the Greek mythological princess Andromeda. Here are five fascinating facts about the Andromeda galaxy. 5. Andromeda Has One Trillion Suns. There are around one trillion suns in the Andromeda Galaxy, compared to between 100 and 400 billion stars for our own Milky Way galaxy. Not only does it have a lot more stars than the milky way, Andromeda is enormous with a diameter of around 220,000 light-years across, which is nearly one and a half times longer than the Milky Way. Despite that, the mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is only 400 billion times that of our own Sun. The Milky Way is imagined to be considerably heavier because it probably possesses more Dark Matter and Dark Energy than the Andromeda galaxy. 4. Andromeda Appears Six Times the Size of our Moon. 3. Andromeda is Full of Black Holes. 2. Andromeda and Milky Way will collide. 1. Andromeda Was Once Thought To Be A Nebula. Credit: NASA/ESA