eastbound on U.S. Route 2
- How to find and observe M31 (TOTS#1) (eyesonthesky.com)
Messier 31 is the closest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. It is over 2 million light years away, so the photons reaching your eye in a telescope tonight left that galaxy some 2+ million years ago, just before the time of homo erectus. The Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with our own, and the two will merge in about 4 billion years.
westbound on U.S. Route 2
- Pilchuck River (Wikipedia)
The Pilchuck River (Lushootseed: dxʷkʷiƛ̕əb) is a river in Snohomish County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is a tributary of the Snohomish River. The name is derived from the Chinook Jargon pilpil (“blood”, “red”) and chuck (“water”), or “red water”. The Lushootseed name means “flowing red,” kʷiƛ̕ being an archaic term for “red” in Northern Lushootseed.
