The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this portion of the Andromeda galaxy is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic next-door neighbor.
To those who are a bit more versed in astronomy, etc: Have they ever named a star outside of the Milky Way Galaxy? I tried to google the issue but came up short.
^^ Are you Sirius? .......Sirius - The brightest star in the sky is also one of the nearest to Earth: Sirius is just under 9 light years away. This is a binary star: the primary star, Sirius A, is orbited by a white dwarf known as Sirius B. Located in the Galaxy Canis Major.
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