The Hubble obtained the sharpest images ever captured of the Andromeda Galaxy
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The orbiting Hubble telescope has photographed a third of the Andromeda galaxy, which is the largest and most accurate image ever provided by the device. To see the full panorama would take 600 HD television screens.
The striking image, 1.500 million pixels, reveals "more than 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters cramped in a section of the galactic disk-shaped pancake that spans over 40,000 light years," reads the joint statement of NASA and the European Space Agency.
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The event, which will take place within 4,000 million years, will forever change the face of the sky and, the story of our solar system and its planets.