Astronauticspage on Instagram: "Live Footage of M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the nearest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way and lies about 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It is the largest galaxy in our local group, containing roughly one trillion stars, more than twice the number in the Milky Way. Visible to the naked eye from Earth under dark skies, Andromeda appears as a faint, elongated smudge of light. Astronomers have discove