Spectacular video of this, from January 6th, in first comment! January 20th, 2015 Taking high-resolution photos of your neighbors is usually frowned upon, but not when the neighbor in question is the Andromeda galaxy and the camera is the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA has shared the sharpest large composite image ever taken of the sprawling mass of stars, space dust, and more, a vast 1.5 billion pixels that together cover a 61,000 light year long section of the galaxy. Its a shot that gets more and more involving even as you zoom in closer, but NASA is hoping that it will do more than just amaze people. Instead, the hope is that theyll provoke more research based on the surfeit of high-resolution photographs that Hubble is producing. This particular Andromeda photo is actually the result of combining a total of more than sixteen hours of exposures and multiple resulting frames into one single shot. Its also the first time that astronomers will be able to make out individual stars over a significant section of an external spiral galaxy, the Hubble team points out. slashgear/the-largest-ever-hubble-photo-shows-andromedas-glory-20365421/
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:11:03 +0000
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