New panoramic photo of the Andromeda galaxy was taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and includes more than 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, scientists from the Space Telescope Science Institute explain that the galaxy of Andromeda is about 2,5 million light years from our planet. And therefore 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 provisual view of a section of the Andromeda Galaxy is a composite image made up of 7398 different images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope NASA between July 2010 and October 2013.
It is understood that the original image has an analysis 1,5 billions of 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 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.