The Silver Sliver Galaxy
- Distance
- 27.3 Mly
- Morphology
- spiral
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right Asc.
- 35.639°
- Declination
- 42.349°
- Catalog
- NGC
About The Silver Sliver Galaxy
The Silver Sliver Galaxy is a spiral galaxy located approximately 27.3 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Andromeda. Its coordinates in the sky are right ascension 35.639° and declination 42.349°, and it is catalogued in the New General Catalogue (NGC).
The light reaching Earth from The Silver Sliver Galaxy today left the galaxy roughly 27.3 million years ago. What you see in telescope imagery is a snapshot of the galaxy as it appeared before most of Earth’s mammalian history.
Through the Galactic Registry, you can symbolically dedicate The Silver Sliver Galaxy in a name, memory, or message of your choosing. Your dedication is filed permanently in our public registry and printed on an archival 12″×18″ cotton-stock certificate, shipped worldwide. This is not an official IAU renaming — only the International Astronomical Union can officially name celestial bodies — but it is a permanent symbolic act tied to a galaxy that demonstrably exists, can be pointed at from any observatory on Earth, and has been imaged by NASA, ESA, or a ground-based telescope.
