The largest photograph of the Andromeda nebula from the Hubble telescope



    The Hubble telescope , which has repeatedly delighted us with bewitching photographs of distant space, on January 5 issued a new masterpiece - a very detailed photograph of the Andromeda nebula, the closest galaxy to our Milky Way (2.5 million light-years). The photo contains one and a half gigapixels, so it is best to study it with the zoom tool on the site of the telescope .

    A beautiful photograph covers a part from the central bulge of the galaxy to the edge of its disk. For each click, the detail increases and an incredible number of distant stars are revealed to the eye (there are more than 100 million of them in the photo). To create the photo, 411 telescope images were used, which were made in the visible spectrum using various filters.

    Large clusters of blue stars are visible in star clusters and in places in spiral arms where stars form. Dark places indicate stardust clusters. Andromeda is a spiral galaxy, the same as most other galaxies in the observable Universe, so astronomers, studying its detailed image, will be able to draw conclusions and generalizations that are true for most other galaxies.

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