So every now and then there is a great medium that reveals on a grand scale how amazing it is that we exist, such a small part of the universe. This website is one of the. The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to take a 1.5 billion pixel image of the Andromeda Galaxy that you can check online, it is incredible. The link below makes it possible to zoom into patches of the galaxy, seeing the extraordinary detail come to life every time you click. What may have seemed like a single star is revealed as a dense cluster or a giant surrounded by hundreds of others too faint to make out in the wider view. More than 100 million of its estimated trillion stars are visible in this image, provided you go deep enough. Most of Andromedas stars are simply too faint to be seen at this distance, even with a telescope as powerful as Hubble. However, the image also doesnt take in the full width of this mighty galaxy. The part photographed is 40,000 light-years across, but represents only one side of the galaxy, since the left hand end only just captures the galactic center. The outermost regions have also been excluded with the galaxys full diameter estimated at 3-5 times this size.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 05:20:29 +0000
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