Zooming in on The Andromeda Galaxy | Hubble FriendsofNASA.org: This image, captured with the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope, is one of the largest and sharpest images ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy—otherwise known as M31. Distance: 2 million light years This is a cropped version of the full image and has 1.5 billion pixels. You would need more than 600 HD television screens to display the whole image. It is one of the biggest Hubble images ever released and shows over 100

Zoom into 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. An