Contact: Jon Weiner
jrweiner@caltech.edu
626-395-3226
California Institute of Technology
Caption: This is the Andromeda galaxy, as seen with the new PTF camera on the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory. This image covers 3 square degrees of sky, more than 15 times the size of the full moon.
Credit: Nugent & Poznanski (LBNL), PTF collaboration
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