Νέα πανοραμική φωτογραφία του γαλαξία της Ανδρομέδας λήφθηκε με τη βοήθεια του διαστημικού τηλεσκοπίου Hubble by NASA and includes over 100 million 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 corresponding article, the scientists from the Space Telescope Science Institute explain that the Andromeda galaxy is about 2,5 million light years away from our planet. And consequently it is a neighbor of our Galaxy.
The stunning image given does not show the entire Andromeda galaxy as a whole. In fact, it shows from our galactic neighbor only a large portion of 48.000 light-years long. Even so, it's about 100 million stars included in this piece.
Astronomers explain that this perspective view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy is a complex image composed of 7398 different images taken from Hubble's space telescope 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 her properly and in her entirety, we'll need to show her to a small army of about 600 HD displays television.
If you have some time and appetite for a closer look at our galactic neighbor, you can visit the official by clicking here of Space Telescope Science Institute and play with the zoom of the site.
