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Andromeda Nebula

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Andromeda Nebula [‚an′dräm·ə·də ′ne·byə·lə]
(astronomy)


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The first of these galaxies was shown to exist when Edwin Hubble resolved the stars of the Andromeda nebula in 1923, with the help of then newly built 100-inch telescope at Mt.
In 1923, while observing the Andromeda nebula, he found that it contained a Cepheid variable, a star that regularly varies in brightness.
 
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