The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...
Credit: NASA, ESA, Benjamin F ... One light-year is about 6 trillion miles, or 9 trillion kilometers. This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations.
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 ...