That makes it at least equal in size to the largest galaxy in our local group, the Andromeda Galaxy.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

Astronomers have always thought that the Andromeda Galaxy was more massive than the Milk Way because it is believed to have more stars.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

The Andromeda Galaxy is big enough and near enough to be seen by the unaided eye in the star group Andromeda on a dark night.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

Crichton sold 1969's The Andromeda Strain to Hollywood before he finished Harvard Medical School.

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Other galaxies, including our near-neighbor, the Andromeda, contain black holes hundreds of times more massive.

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My biggest fear is not that by accident we will set loose some genetically defective Andromeda strain.

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