In today's image, we see a number of objects at widely varying distances from us. The meteor is a small grain of material from comet Swift-Tuttle burning up in Earth's atmosphere. The Andromeda galaxy is a large object - as big as our own Milky Way galaxy, 2.5 million light years away.
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