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Zooming In on the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Gigapixels of Andromeda, is a 2015 composite photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy produced by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is 1.5 billion pixels in size, and is the largest image ever taken by the telescope. [1] At the time of its release to the public, the image was one of the largest ever ...
Hubble image of the Andromeda Galaxy core showing P1, P2 and P3, with P3 containing M31*. NASA/ESA photo. The Andromeda Galaxy is known to harbor a dense and compact star cluster at its very center, similar to our own galaxy. A large telescope creates a visual impression of a star embedded in the more diffuse surrounding bulge.
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High EV because it shows the star density of the Andromeda Galaxy, and an absolutely amazing image overall. Very surprised it hasn't been nominated yet. There's a 0.7 gigabyte version (File:Andromeda Galaxy M31 - Heic1502a Full resolution.tiff), but that one isn't transcluded anywhere and is so big that it needs to be downloaded to open.
English: This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view and begins to distort the Milky Way with tidal pull.
Messier 32 (also known as M32 and NGC 221) is a dwarf "early-type" galaxy about 2,490,000 light-years (760,000 pc) from the Solar System, appearing in the constellation Andromeda. M32 is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and was discovered by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1749.
Andromeda as it appears in the night sky, with the superimposed figure. α And (Alpheratz, Sirrah) is the brightest star in this constellation. It is an A0p class [10] binary star with an overall apparent visual magnitude of 2.1 and a luminosity of 96 L ☉. [24] It is 97 light-years from Earth. [25]
(The Andromeda Galaxy and Pleiades are prominent in the lower half of the image.) Gegenschein (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ ɡ ən ˌ ʃ aɪ n /; German: [ˈɡeːɡn̩ˌʃaɪn]; lit. ' counter-shine ') or counterglow is a faintly bright spot in the night sky centered at the antisolar point.