The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, is the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, located about 2.5 million light-years away.
It is the largest galaxy in our Local Group, containing roughly one trillion stars, more than twice the number in our galaxy.
Andromeda and the Milky Way are on a collision course and are expected to merge in about 4–5 billion years, forming a giant elliptical galaxy. It is visible to the naked eye from Earth under dark skies, appearing as a faint smudge in the constellation Andromeda.

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