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Does the Andromeda galaxy have a star similar to our Sun?

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The Andromeda Galaxy is too far away to see individual stars within it. The odd one may be bright enough to see, but at that distance they generally blend together into a soup that can't be classified individually. In our own galaxy, the Milky Way, we can see so many stars that a classification system has been created. read more

In our own galaxy, the Milky Way, we can see so many stars that a classification system has been created. There are seven main stellar classifications. Our star (the sun) is a main sequence G2V with a temperature of 5,800K, and there are many more like it in our galaxy. read more

Like our own galaxy, there’s also a supermassive black hole at the centre, with two others possibly orbiting as a binary, with a mass around 140 million times that of the Sun. 8. Andromeda is a galactic bully Andromeda has numerous satellite galaxies, including 14 dwarf galaxies that it regularly bullies. read more

The Andromeda Galaxy does not orbit a sun as a planet does; it is an immense cloud consisting of as many as 1 trillion stars, each of which can be considered a sun. read more

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