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The Andromeda Galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years from Earth, is the closest major spiral galaxy to the Milky Way and features a diameter of about 200,000 light-years and a mass of 0.8–1.5 trillion solar masses. It contains approximately one trillion stars, predominantly older than those in the Milky Way, and is surrounded by a hot gas halo and several dwarf satellite galaxies. Andromeda is predicted to merge with the Milky Way in 4–5 billion years, marking its significance in the study of galactic stru

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