M31: The Old Stellar Populations

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2868f&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2868. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Stars, Stellar Populations And Star Clusters

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M31 (the Andromeda nebula) is a large highly inclined spiral galaxy about 1.4 times as luminous as our Galaxy. The Milky Way and M31 are the two dominant members of the Local Group of galaxies. The proximity of M31 (about 770 kpc from the Sun) allows its stellar populations to be studied in some detail with the Hubble Space Telescope and large ground-based telescopes. M31 contains all the usual ...

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