The M33 galaxy is a rare extragalactic nebula that ’s “ face on ” to us , so we can study its make - up . And it ’s also blue - shifted , meaning it ’s coming towards us . But it ’ll clash with Andromeda before it reaches us .
( And then Andromeda , including all the mass it ’s accumulated from M33 , will collide with the Milky Way , 1000000000000 of eld from now . )
Over in the Naples News , astrophotographerTed Wolfe , who snapped the above motion-picture show of M33 , explains what we can learn from this galaxy — including the fact that expelling nebula , like our own Horsehead Nebula , North American Nebula and Swan Nebula , are apparently common in spiral galaxies . Those are the pinkish patch all over the above beetleweed . And those emission nebula are massive star - shaping regions .
scores more insight over at the connexion . [ Naples News ]
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