Andromeda
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Andromeda
The most distant object easily visible to the unaided eye is M31, the Andromeda galaxy some two million light-years away. If not for the mysterious effects of dark energy, Andromeda and other galaxies in the cluster would be nearer to -- and perhaps colliding with -- the Milky Way.


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