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Enchanted Learning® Photoblog Posted August 19, 2012 9:43 pm

The Andromeda Galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy is the farthest object that can be seen with the unaided eye. It's so far away that the light from its stars takes 2 1/2 million years to reach us. So this photograph shows the Andromeda Galaxy not as it is now, but as it was before any human being had been born!

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