On January 9th 2015 NASA released the sharpest image of our neighbouring galaxy Andromeda captured by the Hubble Space telescope. Although Andromeda is the Milky Ways closest neighbouring galaxy, it is over 200 million light years away. The image is only a fraction of Andromeda, the image shows approximately 48,000 light years of the galaxies disk containing over 100 million stars. This image will help scientists study spiral shaped galaxies in greater detail, these types of galaxies are popular in our observable universe of over 100 billion galaxies. Click the link below the image to zoom in and explore Andromeda for yourself.
"It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand" - hubblesite.org.
Source: Hubblesite.org http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/02/image/a/
"It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand" - hubblesite.org.
Source: Hubblesite.org http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/02/image/a/
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