Andromeda Galaxy | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-07

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00:01:39 1 Observation history
00:04:08 1.1 Island universe
00:07:14 2 General
00:07:43 2.1 Formation and history
00:09:05 2.2 Distance estimate
00:11:50 2.3 Mass estimates
00:14:21 2.4 Luminosity estimates
00:16:54 3 Structure
00:23:19 4 Nucleus
00:25:20 5 Discrete sources
00:29:10 6 Satellites
00:30:27 7 Collision with the Milky Way
00:31:44 8 Amateur observing
00:32:38 9 See also



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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. Its name stems from the area of the Earth's sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda.
The virial mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Milky Way, at a trillion solar masses (1012M☉). The mass of either galaxy is difficult to estimate with any accuracy, but it was long thought that the Andromeda Galaxy is more massive than the Milky Way by a margin of some 25% to 50%. This has been called into question by a 2018 study which cited a lower estimate on the mass of the Andromeda Galaxy, 
combined with preliminary reports on a 2019 study estimating a higher mass of the Milky Way. 
The Andromeda Galaxy has a diameter of about 220,000 light-years, making it the largest member of the Local Group at least in terms of extension, if not mass.
The number of stars contained in the  Andromeda Galaxy is estimated at one trillion (1×1012), or roughly twice the number estimated for the Milky Way.The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are expected to collide in ~4.5 billion years, merging to form a giant elliptical galaxy or a large lenticular galaxy.
With an apparent magnitude of 3.4, the Andromeda Galaxy is among the brightest of the Messier objects making it visible to the naked eye from Earth on moonless nights, even when viewed from areas with moderate light pollution.