APOD: 2026 September 27 – Andromeda Before and After Photoshop
APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 September 27 –...Today's APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. BeforeAfter Andromeda Before and After Photoshop Explanation: What does the Andromeda galaxy really look like?
- ▪APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 September 27 –...Today's APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos!
- ▪Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
- ▪BeforeAfter Andromeda Before and After Photoshop Explanation: What does the Andromeda galaxy really look like?
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| Original publisher | NASA |
| Canonical URL | https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod-2026-september-27-andromeda-before-photoshop/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:05:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-27T05:15:22.760Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-27T05:15:22.760Z |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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APODScienceAPODAPOD: 2026 September 27 –...Today's APODArchiveSubmissionsIndexSearchCalendarRSSEducationAboutDiscuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. BeforeAfter Andromeda Before and After Photoshop Explanation: What does the Andromeda galaxy really look like? The featured before image shows how our Milky Way Galaxy's closest major galactic neighbor really appears in a long exposure through Earth's busy skies and with a digital camera that introduces normal imperfections. The picture is a stack of 223 images, each a 300 second exposure, taken from a garden observatory in Portugal during 2019.
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