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Article: Swift Makes Best-Ever Ultraviolet Portrait of Andromeda Galaxy

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September 16, 2009
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Contact: Francis Reddy, +1-301-286-4453, francis.j.reddy@nasa.gov, or Rob Gutro, +1-301-286-4044, robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov, both of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

GREENBELT, Md., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a break from its usual task of searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of a neighboring spiral galaxy ever attained in the ultraviolet. The galaxy, known as M31 in the constellation Andromeda, is the largest and closest spiral galaxy to our own.

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"Swift reveals about 20,000 ultraviolet sources in M31, especially ...

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