Andromeda Galaxy

Largest Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled offers awesome view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy

Captures individual stars 2 million light-years away

January 6, 2015

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Hubble’s high-definition panoramic view of a portion of the Andromeda Galaxy (click twice to see individual stars). The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this image is also the sharpest composite image ever taken of the Andromeda Galaxy (credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and L.C. Johnson (U. of Washington), the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) team, and R. Gendler)