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[-] tricerotops@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

isnt andromeda gigantic in the night sky but weve got too much light pollution to see it normally?

anyway retvrn to alien

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 week ago

It is gigantic & very luminous but it's also just too far away to be really noticeable - on its own is just on the limit of the best of human eyes if there would be no other star in the sky (very dim, with the visible/luminous core being only about the size of the Moon or smaller - the full galaxy is 5× larger on the sky compared to Moon, but that's not comparable in luminosity).

Disregarding human pollution there are just too many starts from Milfky Way way closer to us.

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