Hubble’s Stunning Star-Filled View of the Andromeda Galaxy It’s Hubble’s 25th anniversary in space this year but it seems like we’re the ones getting all the presents! Yesterday NASA released two new high-def versions of the famous “Pillars of Creation” image, and now today there’s this: Hubble’s most detailed image ever of the Andromeda Galaxy! Containing over 100 million stars it’s not just the best view yet of Andromeda – it’s also the most expansive image ever made with Hubble. Although the galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away it extends across an area larger than the full Moon in the sky, so to create such a detailed mosaic Hubble had to obtain 7,398 images taken over 411 individual pointings! It’s 1.5 billion pixels covering an area over 40,000 light-years across. According to NASA, it’s “like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand.” lightsinthedark.wordpress/2015/01/06/hubbles-stunning-star-filled-view-of-the-andromeda-galaxy/
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:36:28 +0000