Observatory on Instagram: "Live footage of the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.5 million light-years from us✨ The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest major galaxy to our Milky Way, located about 2.5 million light-years away in the Andromeda constellation. It is a barred spiral galaxy with over a trillion stars and is visible to the naked eye as a faint, fuzzy patch of light. Andromeda is on a collision course with our own galaxy, with the two expected to merge in about 4.5 billion years. 📹 @kareem.altara