The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest and biggest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as Messier 31. The enormous image is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years.
The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1502/
Kind regards,
ESA/Hubble Information Centre
The ESO Education and Public Outreach Department
5 January 2015
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