Nighttime Sky View of Future Galaxy Merger: Present Day

Nighttime Sky View of Future Galaxy Merger: Present Day
Nighttime Sky View of Future Galaxy Merger: Present Day This is a nighttime view of the current sky, with the bright belt of our Milky Way. The Andromeda galaxy lies 2.5 million light-years away and looks like a faint spindle, several times the diameter of the full Moon. NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), T. Hallas, and A. Mellinger