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 Translation for 'Andromeda Galaxy' from English to Danish
NOUN   the Andromeda Galaxy | -
astron.
Andromeda Galaxy
Andromedagalaksen {fk} [best. f.]
astron.
dwarf galaxy
dværggalakse {fk}
mytol.
Andromeda
Andromeda {fk}
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Translation for 'Andromeda Galaxy' from English to Danish

Andromeda Galaxy
Andromedagalaksen {fk} [best. f.]astron.

dwarf galaxy
dværggalakse {fk}astron.
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Andromeda
Andromeda {fk}mytol.
Usage Examples English
  • In 2005 astronomers discovered a new, "extended" type of star cluster in the Andromeda Galaxy's halo, similar to the globular cluster.
  • In the Local Group, the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are gravitationally bound, and currently approaching each other at high speed.
  • Babcock reported the rotation curve for the Andromeda nebula (known now as the Andromeda Galaxy), which suggested the mass-to-luminosity ratio increases radially.
  • It was founded by the Vedrans, the first race to discover slipstream, who initially used it to conquer the Andromeda Galaxy.
  • For example, PA-99-N2 is a microlensing event that may have been due to a star in the Andromeda Galaxy that has an exoplanet.

  • Among these, the "Book of Fixed Stars" (964) was written by the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, who observed a number of stars, star clusters (including the Omicron Velorum and Brocchi's Clusters) and galaxies (including the Andromeda Galaxy).
  • In fact, it has been suggested that a quasar could form when the Andromeda Galaxy collides with the Milky Way galaxy in approximately 3–5 billion years.
  • Roughly 25 novae brighter than about the twentieth magnitude are discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy each year and smaller numbers are seen in other nearby galaxies.
  • The Andromeda Galaxy, for instance, was once referred to as the "Andromeda Nebula" (and spiral galaxies in general as "spiral nebulae") before the true nature of galaxies was confirmed in the early 20th century by Vesto Slipher, Edwin Hubble and others.
  • It consists of two collections of galaxies in a "dumbbell" shape; the Milky Way and its satellites form one lobe, and the Andromeda Galaxy and its satellites constitute the other.

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