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A Halo for Andromeda
M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, is the closest large spiral galaxy to our Milky Way, about 2.5 million light-years distant. It shines in Earth's night sky as a small, faint, elongated cloud, just visible to the unaided eye. Invisible to the eye is its enormous halo of hot ionized gas, represented here in purplish hues. This halo was mapped by Hubble Space Telescope observations of ultraviolet light absorption against distant quasars.
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In tropical astrology, 3 SEP 2020 falls under Virgo (♍). The sign's window runs from 08-23 through 09-22. Virgo is the largest zodiac constellation, holding the heart of the Virgo galaxy cluster. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 3 SEP 2020.