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It took a decade for NASA to piece together this 416,592,960 pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy and the key takeaway? 'Andromeda's a train wreck'
It's a galactic "trainwreck." The 42,208 by 9,870 pixel panorama features 200 million stars, a mere fraction of the one trillion stars in the Andromeda galaxy overall (via PetaPixel). The galaxy ...
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Science Museum of Virginia’s ‘The Dome’ to showcase NASA’s new Andromeda Galaxy mosaic
Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos to showcase over 200 million stars.
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Scientists capture absolutely stunning image of the Andromeda galaxy
A close-up view of a prodigious number of stars in the Andromeda galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / B. Williams (U. of Washington) The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 ...
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'Enticing empire of stars:' See Andromeda galaxy in newly released NASA images
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
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'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars. When you purchase ...
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Hubble Telescope images combined into giant mosaic of neighboring Andromeda Galaxy
Video of the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. The camera pans along the Andromeda Galaxy's vast disk which is over 200,000 light-years across. (Credit: ...
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NASA’s Hubble Uncovers Andromeda’s Hidden History in Breathtaking Detail
The Andromeda galaxy, our nearest major galactic neighbor and one of the most iconic objects in the night sky, has captivated the imaginations of astronomers and stargazers for centuries.
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Panorama of Andromeda galaxy unveils hundreds of millions of stars
But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31). It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear ...
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Panorama of our nearest galactic neighbor unveils hundreds of millions of stars
It is a panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light years away from Earth. This mosaic took over 10 years to create, captures 200 million stars, still a fraction of Andromeda ...
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What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy merge?
Astronomers predict that our home galaxy and the nearest major galaxy to it, Andromeda (2.5 million light-years away), will collide and eventually merge between 3.9 billion and 5.6 billion years ...
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NASA's Hubble traces hidden history of Andromeda galaxy
But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31). It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear ...
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'Enticing empire of stars:' See Andromeda galaxy in newly released NASA images
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and ...