The Andromeda Galaxy Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut The tip of the "wing"

The tip of the "wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this 2013 view from NASA's Great Observatories

"Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

captured by WISE in this view

for obvious reasons

it is the 66th object in the famous catalogue of nebulae by French astronomer Charles Messier (1730 - 1817)

The Andromeda Galaxy Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut The tip of the "wing"This is a nighttime view of the current sky, with the bright belt of our Milky Way. The Andromeda galaxy lies 2. 5 million light years away and looks like a faint spindle, several times the diameter of the full Moon. Credit: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), T. Hallas, and A. Mellinger