Hey, neighbor!
The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to ours, at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years.
This #hubbleclassic view shows just a portion of Andromeda. Hubble surveyed 2,753 star clusters in this galaxy and found there’s a consistent distribution from massive stars to small stars, and this ratio is the same in our own stellar neighborhood here in the Milky Way!
Image credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, L.C. Johnson (University of Washington), and the PHAT team
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