The Andromeda Galaxy is the Milky Way's nearest comparable neighbour and perhaps the most famous object on Charles Messier's famed list of 110 objects.
Featuring Meghan Gray and Mike Merrifield from the University of Nottingham and astrophotographer Nik Szymanek.
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More about the astronomers in our videos: http://www.deepskyvideos.com/pages/contributors.html
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Videos by Brady Haran
Editing in this film by Stephen Slater
Brady's other channels include:
http://www.youtube.com/periodicvideos (Chemistry stuff)
http://www.youtube.com/sixtysymbols (Physics and astronomy)
http://www.youtube.com/numberphile (Numbers and maths)
http://www.youtube.com/nottinghamscience (Science and behind the scenes)
http://www.youtube.com/foodskey (Food science)
http://www.youtube.com/BackstageScience (Big science facilities)
http://www.youtube.com/favscientist (Favourite scientists)
http://www.youtube.com/bibledex (Academic look at the Bible)
http://www.youtube.com/wordsoftheworld (Modern language and culture)
http://www.youtube.com/PhilosophyFile (Philosophy stuff)
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