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Hubble takes "largest picture ever" and it's stunning

January 19, 2015

A detail from the Hubble Space Telescope's largest photograph ever, which depicts the Andromeda galaxy. (Credit: NASA)

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A massive, high-definition panorama taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is being called the largest picture ever taken, and it shows Andromeda in unprecedented detail, depicting over 100 million individual stars and traversing a 48,000 light-year-long stretch of the galaxy.

The panorama is a gargantuan 1.5 billion-pixel image that requires more than 4 GB worth of disk space and is comprised of 411 individual Hubble images. In addition, it is the sharpest large-scale composite of Andromeda image ever captured, according to NASA, with 100 million-plus stars depicted in the image.

To put that into perspective, the European Space Agency said that the image is so big that it would take more than 600 high-definition TV screens in order to display the whole thing. According to the ESA, the panorama is the largest Hubble image ever released, and it has also established a new benchmark for the precision studies of large spiral galaxies.

Andromeda, also known as M31, is the closest galaxy to our own Milky Way. It is more than two million light years away, but the US space agency said that Hubble is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000-light-year-long stretch of its pancake-shaped disk. NASA compares it to photographing a beach and being able to pinpoint individual grains of sand.

Never before have astronomers been able to see individual stars inside an external spiral galaxy over such a large contiguous area, NASA said. The image, which was presented earlier this month at the 225th Meeting of the Astronomical Society in Seattle, Washington, is the first data to reveal populations of stars in context to their home galaxy, the agency added.

The Hubble telescope traced densely packed stars that extended from the galaxys innermost region. Moving out from the center, the panorama sweeps across rows of stars and dust to the sparse outer disk. Large group of young blue stars indicate regions of star formation and star clusters, and the dark silhouettes indicate complex dust structures. Underlying the entire galaxy is a distribution of cooler red stars that trace the evolution of the galaxy over a period of several billion years, the researchers said.

The panorama was the product of the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) program, and images were obtained by viewing Andromeda in near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths.

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Hubble's High-Definition Panoramic View Of The Andromeda Galaxy

The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic neighbor. Though the galaxy is over 2 million light-years away, the Hubble telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000-light-year-long section of the galaxy's pancake-shaped disk. It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand. And, there are lots of stars in this sweeping view over 100 million, with some of them in thousands of star clusters seen embedded in the disk. This ambitious photographic cartography of the Andromeda galaxy represents a new benchmark for precision studies of large spiral galaxies which dominate the universe's population of over 100 billion galaxies. Never before have astronomers been able to see individual stars over a major portion of an external spiral galaxy. Most of the stars in the universe live inside such majestic star cities, and this is the first data that reveal populations of stars in context to their home galaxy.

The panorama is the product of the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) program. Images were obtained from viewing the galaxy in near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths, using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard Hubble. This view shows the galaxy in its natural visible-light color, as photographed with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys in red and blue filters July 2010 through October 2013.

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Hubble Telescope Captures Best View Ever of the Andromeda Galaxy

SEATTLE The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing new photo of the Andromeda Galaxy. The new mosaic image represents the sharpest and largest mosaic image of the Milky Way's galactic neighbor ever taken, Hubble officials said.

The panoramic image shows striking details of the bright galaxy, which is located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. While that may seem far away, Hubble usually trains its view on more distant targets. Because Andromeda fills up so much of Hubble's field of view, the telescope was able to capture incredible detail in its survey of the galaxy. Fly through the amazing Andromeda image in a new video as well.

The newly-released image stretches across about 48,000 light-years of the galaxy's disk, according to Hubble officials. In total, the image shows more than 100 million stars in the galaxy. Hubble officials revealed the new photo during a news conference here at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. [See more amazing Hubble Space Telescope photos]

"Hubble traces densely packed stars extending from the innermost hub of the galaxy, seen at left," Hubble representatives said in a statement. "Moving out from this central galactic bulge, the panorama sweeps from the galaxy's central bulge across lanes of stars and dust to the sparser outer disk."

Scientists can use this image to help them interpret other spiral galaxies like theAndromeda galaxythat might have similar light signatures, but are farther from Earth.

The panorama was created as part of the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) program. This image was created as a mosaic of 7,398 exposures taken over the course of 411 pointings of the telescope, according to Hubble officials.

"Large groups of young blue stars indicate the locations of star clusters and star-forming regions. The stars bunch up in the blue ring-like feature toward the right side of the image," Hubble representatives said in the same statement. "The dark silhouettes trace out complex dust structures. Underlying the entire galaxy is a smooth distribution of cooler red stars that trace Andromeda's evolution over billions of years."

Andromeda and the Milky Way are on the way toward a crash of cosmic proportions. The two galaxies will merge, forming one new galaxy billions of years from now.

You can explore a zoomable version of the new PHAT image directly through Hubble here: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/02/image/a/format/zoom/

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