The biggest picture Andromeda from the telescope "Hubble" Bashny.Net

telescope "Hubble» , which is not just pleased us stunning images of the distant cosmos January 5, issued a new masterpiece - a very detailed picture of the nebula Andromeda, the nearest to our own Milky Way galaxy large (2.5 million light-years). Photo contains half gigapixel, so it is best to study with the help of Zoom tool online telescope .

Beautiful picture of the cover of the central bulge of the galaxy to the edge of its disk. For each clique increases detail and eyes the incredible amount of distant stars (only photos of them more than 100 million). To create pictures were used 411 images from the telescope, which were made in the visible spectrum using various filters.

Seen large accumulations of blue stars in star clusters and places in the spiral arms, where stars are formed. Dark areas mark the cluster stellar dust. Andromeda - a spiral galaxy, the same as most other galaxies in the observable universe, so astronomers studying in detail its image, can make conclusions and generalizations, true for most other galaxies.

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