Young Blue Stars in the Andromeda Core

In 2005, astronomers identified the source of a mysterious blue light right in the center of our neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). It was a disk of young blue stars in the middle of a population of ancient stars

Michele Diodati
Island Universes
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5 min readOct 2, 2021

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Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Schaller (STScI)

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Michele Diodati
Island Universes

Science writer with a lifelong passion for astronomy and comparisons between different scales of magnitude.