New views of a neighbor - completion of 3-by-7-foot seamless image of the Andromeda galaxy by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - Brief Article

Science News, June 18, 1994 by Ron Cowen

It took only 3 nights of telescope time to get the data, but it required nearly a year of work to assemble a seamless, 3-foot by 7-foot, high-resolution image of the Andromeda galaxy The new near-infrared image of our nearest spiral neighbor will provide astronomers with a new tool to study a galaxy similar to our own says Somak Raychaudhury of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Other astronomers produced a similar image of Andromeda in visible light.

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