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What you're seeing: The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the nearest large galaxy to our Milky Way, about 2.5 million light-years away, with roughly a trillion stars. The two smaller galaxies orbiting it are M32, the compact bright one at the upper left of the core, and M110, the larger, fainter elliptical. The pink-red knots strung along the spiral arms are clouds of glowing hydrogen where new stars are being born, and the dark lanes are dust.

How it was made: 65h 18m of total exposure over eight nights in early October 2026 from Nebraska, made of hundreds of individual frames stacked together.…