The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs 2.5 million light-years from Earth, and the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.[4] Its name stems from the area of the sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda.
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