Thread: M 31 Repro
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Old 04-10-2011, 02:42 PM
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Just out of curiousity, would you call M31 a spiral galaxy? Are the arms obscured by its angle relative to us?

It doesn't really look like many other galaxies in that it seems to circular with no spiral structure. Perhaps more like Sombrero Galaxy.

Greg.
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