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.

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His task is to kill, or petrify, a ravening sea beast before it dines on Andromeda (Alexa Davalos), and his journey, in the company of Draco (Mads Mikkelsen) and other nerveless warriors, takes him through deserts prowled by giant scorpions.

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At a relatively close distance of 2.5 million light-years, Andromeda is very similar in size to our own Milky Way Galaxy.

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Shapley saw evidence for Cepheids in Andromeda long before Hubble did, but refused to believe they could be Cepheids out of a stubborn attachment to his own theories.

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