n-a-s-a: M31: The Andromeda Galaxy Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler  Growing up, I had a giant poster of the Andromeda Galaxy on my bedroom wall. I loved looking at it and thinking about all of those suns, all those planets so far away but still visible even though they weren’t accessible. It wasn’t until middle school when my ‘friends’ ridiculed me that I began to understand that posters of galaxies weren’t what girls had on their bedroom walls. So I replaced it with a poster of a (very androgynous) James Dean leaning against a sports car. But I put that Andromeda poster on the back of my closet door where I could look at it when I needed it. I guess I had multiple closets growing up.

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M31: The Andromeda Galaxy

Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler 

Growing up, I had a giant poster of the Andromeda Galaxy on my bedroom wall. I loved looking at it and thinking about all of those suns, all those planets so far away but still visible even though they weren’t accessible. It wasn’t until middle school when my ‘friends’ ridiculed me that I began to understand that posters of galaxies weren’t what girls had on their bedroom walls. So I replaced it with a poster of a (very androgynous) James Dean leaning against a sports car. But I put that Andromeda poster on the back of my closet door where I could look at it when I needed it. I guess I had multiple closets growing up.