SPIRAL NEBULA IN ANDROMEDA BORDERED WITH STAR CLUSTERS
Tiny flecks of hazy light around the borders of one of the most famous of the spiral nebulae, the one in the constellation Andromeda, are now believed to be great globular clusters of stars–literally swarms of suns crowded like clouds of gnats that hang over the marshes at twilight.
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