A satellite of the Andromeda galaxy and a member of the Local Group — galaxies closest to the Milky Way — M110 is less than three billion light-years from Earth. While elliptical galaxies are often ...
As backyard observers may know, some modest telescopes lack the optics or aperture to cleanly resolve deep-sky objects like nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies. This leads to fuzzy images, often ...
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