Andromeda Galaxy in IR

October 17, 2005 | Astronomy | By: Mark VandeWettering

M31 in Infrared

Courtesy of the Bad Astronomy Blog, some very nice images of our closest galactic neighbor M31, the Andromeda Galaxy taken with the Spitzer telescope in infrared. It shows a great deal of detail which is missing from visible light photographs. Very nice.

(Okay, okay, there are the Magellenic clouds, and other dwarf galaxies that are closer, but you get the idea.)