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For exactly the same reason that an LED, a flashlight, or a burning match is visible to you

if it's near enough to you.

Because the Andromeda galaxy contains a few light sources ... a few hundred billion stars ...

that are bright enough to be seen at the distance of the Andromeda galaxy.

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