In its 34 years orbiting the Earth, NASA’s mighty Hubble Space Telescope has discovered trillions of galaxies within the universe. One, however, stands stars and nebulae above the rest.
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint cigar-shaped object roughly the apparent angular diameter of our Moon” according to NASA.
