The story for kids
This is the Triangulum Galaxy, Andromeda's little friend. Here, inside pink clouds, new stars are being born.
Facts
- It is the third-biggest galaxy in our group of neighbours.
- It is full of pink clouds where new stars are born.
- In a very dark sky your eyes can just barely spot it. It is one of the farthest things we can see without any instrument.
Numbers
- Type
- Spiral
- Distance
- ~2.7 million light-years
- Stars
- ~40 billion
- Diameter
- ~60,000 light-years