Great Andromeda Galaxy. Creator: NASA.

Great Andromeda Galaxy. Creator: NASA.

2-701-506 - Heritage Space/Heritage Images

Great Andromeda Galaxy. Andromeda is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth, and is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Its name stems from the area of the sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda.


Image Details


People Information

Creator
  1. NASA, attributed to: American:

Medium
  1. Photograph

Category Hierarchy

Science & Nature Natural Phenomena

Science & Nature Astronomy

Science & Nature Discovery & Exploration


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 5064x3960
File Size : 58,751kb


Aliases

  1. 0920000222
  1. 2-701-506
  1. 2701506

Buy a Print  

Keywords - refine your search by combining multiple keywords below.