NASA shows largest image ever of Andromeda Galaxy

[Midniteoyl]

NASA released the largest picture ever taken earlier this month, with a staggering 1.5 billion pixels, of the Andromeda Galaxy.

To get an idea of how massive the picture is, you'll need a 600 HD television screens to look at the whole image.

On Jan. 5, NASA released the image of our closest galactic neighbor.

This YouTube fly-through video shows the detail of the picture captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. To date, the video has over 2.9 million page views.

The full image takes you through 100 million stars and travels more than 40,000 light-years. Each of those white dots is a sun, much like the sun that powers all life on Earth.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/01/20/nasa-largest-picture-andromeda-galaxy/22052513/

 

[BigNasty]

I see a crap ton of solar systems with more galaxies peeking through.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Zoom Tool... Zoom and Move around.. http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/

 

[No Ash More Cash]

This is more proof that we are the only living things in the universe

 

[Midniteoyl]

I didnt see anyone waving...

 

[BigNasty]

I didnt see anyone waving...

They are waiting till night time to probe Uranus.

 

[wally]

W26 is about 1,500 times wider than the sun, making it the biggest known star in the universe. The red supergiant star is nearing the end of its life and will eventually explode as a supernova, researchers said.

 

[M5amhan]

W26 is about 1,500 times wider than the sun, making it the biggest known star in the universe. The red supergiant star is nearing the end of its life and will eventually explode as a supernova, researchers said.

watching videos of that stuff happening is just mind blowing, so much energy out there

 

[BigNasty]

W26 is about 1,500 times wider than the sun, making it the biggest known star in the universe. The red supergiant star is nearing the end of its life and will eventually explode as a supernova, researchers said.

And by the time we see it, it has been long gone for BILLIONS of years.

 

[Zamazam]

They are waiting till night time to probe Uranus.

I think that's David Ducovney from the x-files, he's a self admitted sex addict.

 

[BigNasty]

I think that's David Ducovney from the x-files, he's a self admitted sex addict.

I could see that... his wife at the time was SMOKING hot.

 

[BoomStick]

All that stuff out there, we're fighting over minuscule amounts of resources and energy, and our brilliant leaders decided to shut down NASA's manned space program. And we wonder why E.T. hasn't phoned us yet. Maybe they're waiting for us to pull our heads out of ouranus. (See what I did there?)

 

[zaroba]

I find it funny that people think we are alone in the galaxy.

Billions of other galaxies out there. Each galaxy with billions of stars. Each star potentially having planets orbiting around it and each of those planets could have moons. The entire universe is too huge to measure or even comprehend the number of bodies in it. It would be silly to think that this is the only planet in the whole universe with life.

 

[Petyr]

Even according to the biggest skeptics there are between 1.5 and 5 million planets that look like Earth. And this is only in our galaxy. We are small, but our ambitions are big. I just hope that one day humans will walk under different skies.

 

[BoomStick]

If the human race expects to survive indefinately, we will have to become an interstellar species. There is no other option.