Andromeda: earth’s closest galactic neighbor.
Andromeda is a spiral galaxy and also our closest neighbor.
It appears as a fuzzy patch of light and contains millions of stars.
It is the farthest object that can be seen with the naked eye.
Along with the milky way, it belongs to the group of galaxies known as a local group, which in turn is a part of Virgo cluster of groups.
Like stars galaxies are grouped into clusters. Some clusters contains thousands of galaxies.
About 30 galaxies, along with the milky way and the Andromeda are grouped together in one cluster called the local group.
Clusters may group together into upper clusters.
Super clusters are also spread randomly throughout the universe.
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