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Originally Posted by Lyinxz
Ive seen the pictures of it in on the internet of what it looks like through a telescope and its just unbelievable.
To think you can see another galaxy (and knowing exactly how big a galaxy is) is just mind blowing!
Ash
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Well, the Magellenic Clouds are both other galaxies, they are a lot brighter to the naked eye, bigger (visually - not in absolute terms!), and higher in the sky for most of the year.
Admittedly, they are dwarf galaxies gravitationally linked to our own, but then M31 and our galaxy are gravitationally linked too and it is thought they will collide eventually.
Incidentally, through the eyepiece/binocular lenses M31 won't look like the pics, it's pretty much just a grey fuzz with no detail except a brightening in the middle.