See another galaxy with the naked eye
Andromeda Galaxy M31
It’s the smudge to look out for
to see the Andromeda galaxy this winter with the naked eye.
Seeking Out M31
The Andromeda Galaxy , also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth, and the
nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. Its name stems from the area of the sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda.
Andromeda ‘Smudge’ – nebulous smear – you can see it as Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi saw it.
Around the year 964, the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi described the Andromeda Galaxy, in his Book of Fixed Stars as a “nebulous smear”. Star charts of that period labeled it as the Little Cloud.
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