What’s up in June Kendall County skies

NIGHT SKIES

Attached is an image run of M33, the Triangulum galaxy that I took from my backyard on Oct 21, 2022, a two-hour exposure. It’s 2.73 million light years from our galaxy, just slightly further than the Andromeda galaxy at 2.54 million light years.

The Milky way and those two galaxies form a trio of spirals in our “local group”. Just how far is that? I occasionally get questions like the following: Could we travel to the Andromeda galaxy in 100 years? The answer may surprise you. That answer is yes traveling continuously at 1g (Earth gravity).