🌌 Galaxy
Triangulum Galaxy
The third-biggest galaxy in our neighbourhood, after Andromeda and the Milky Way.
- Distance
- 3 million light-years away
- Discovered
- 1764, listed by Charles Messier
Did you know?
- Under very dark skies it can be seen without a telescope, as a faint smudge.
- It makes new stars about ten times faster than Andromeda.
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All of deep space
The Sun
Our star, an ordinary one that keeps everything here alive.
Betelgeuse
A red supergiant in Orion that will one day explode.
Alpha Centauri
The closest star system to the Sun.
Eta Carinae
A pair of giant stars, one of them about 90 times heavier than the Sun.
Mira
A red giant star racing through space with a tail like a comet.
Zeta Ophiuchi
A runaway star, flung out when its partner exploded.