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- ScienceAndromeda Galaxy: Bright Messier Object Visible as Small, Faint Fuzzy PatchAccording to NASA News Releases, the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, is a bright object in the Messier catalog, though it appears to the unaided eye as a small, faint, fuzzy patch, and it spans nearly 6 full moons in the sky during the southern hemisphere spring. The galaxy remains within a few degrees of the horizon when viewed from Mullion, New South Wales, Australia, and reaches its highest point around midnight during the southern hemisphere spring.1 min