US EditionHubble Captures Largest-Ever Photomosaic of Andromeda Galaxy
- Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy, revealing its unique features and history.
- The study, led by Zhuo Chen at the University of Washington, involved over 1,000 Hubble orbits and covered the entire disk of Andromeda.
- Andromeda is home to approximately 1 trillion stars and exhibits a more active recent star-formation history compared to the Milky Way.
- The findings will support future observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
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Hubble's largest panorama ever showcases 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy
The stunning panorama features over 600 overlapping Hubble images that have been painstaking stitched together. Spread across 2.5 billion pixels, you'll find some 200 million stars – all of which are brighter than our own Sun. That is a huge number, yet only a fraction of the estimated one trillion...Read Entire Article
NASA's advanced observatory and ESA took more than 10 years and 1000 Earth orbits to capture the neighboring galaxy in detail, showing 200 million stars with 2.5 billion pixels
The NASA Hubble telescope and the European Space Agency (ESA) achieved a titanic feat by photographing with a...
Secrets of Andromeda Revealed in Hubble’s Epic 2.5 Billion Pixel Image
Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky Way’s closest major neighbor. Located just northeast of the Great Square of Pegasus, it appears as a faint, spindle-shaped patch [...]
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