Zwei benachbarte Riesen: Andromeda und Triangulum Seite an Seite

This is a widefield image I took a few weeks back on my farm in Texas. I used my EOS and vintage pentax m 50 1.7 lens stopped down to f4 5. I took 130 2 minute exposures at 1600 ISO stacked with DSS and edited with siril.

The distance between the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) and the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is approximately 750,000 light-years (230 kiloparsecs).

Both galaxies are part of the Local Group of galaxies, and M33 is considered one of Andromeda’s satellite galaxies or at least gravitationally associated with it. Despite their proximity in astronomical terms, they are still separated by a vast expanse of space!