New panoramic photo of the Andromeda Galaxy taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope includes more than 100 millions stars.
Yesterday, at 5 January 2015, astronomers released a stunning photo of Andromeda's galaxy. The image, taken with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and at the same time the most detailed picture that has been published so far.
In their respective article, scientists from the Space Telescope Science Institute explain that the Andromeda galaxy is about 2,5 a million light-years away from our planet. And so it's a neighbor of our Milky Way.
The stunning image provided does not show the entire Andromeda galaxy. In fact, it shows from our galactic neighbor only a large section 48.000 light years across. Even so, there are about 100 million stars included in this comeye.
Astronomers explain that this perspective view of part of the Andromeda galaxy is a composite image made up of 7398 different images taken by the spacecraft telescope Her Hubble NASA between July 2010 and October 2013.
It is understood that the original image has an analysis 1,5 billion pixels. This means that, to see it properly and as a whole, we should show it in a small army of about 600 HD TV screens.
If you have little time and appetite for a closer look at our Galactic neighbor, you can visit its official website Space Telescope Science Institute and play with the zoom of the site.
