Saturday, January 24, 2015

Gigapixels Of Andromeda

On January 5th, 2015 the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope released the biggest image ever taken of the Andromeda Galaxy. The resulting image is 69,536 x 22,230 pixels... a total of 1.5 billion pixels, requiring 4.3GB of disk space. It provides a startling glimpse at the sheer scale of our nearest neighbor.

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