[M31, Al Sufi painting]

First known representation of the Andromeda Nebula or Galaxy (marked with the letter "A") by Persian astronomer Abd-al-Rahman Al Sufi in his "Book of Fixed Stars" of 964 A.D. He called it the "Little Cloud".


Hartmut Frommert
Christine Kronberg
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