Astronomy / Space Sharpest ever view of the Andromeda Galaxy

[Flappers]

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/

It's absolutely amazing how far our technology is coming along.

Space is just so wonderful... mesmerizing.

 

[Try4Ce]

Holy crap, this is really amazing.

SCIENCE!

 

[mbcx4jrh]

It wood be cool if it wasnt so faint - it's actually 6 times bigger than moon in the sky:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/01/moon_and_andromeda_relative_size_in_the_sky.html

 

[Johnny Kelso]

Great find! +1 from me.

 

[EAGLE 5]

Just think! It'll only get better each year until it will become part of our backyard... Or is it the other way around?

 

[c64orinoco]

Saw that on APOD and immediately thought - Cool, can we get a picture like that of the Eliteangerous Milky Way, with my flightpath superimposed?

 

[Red Fox Four]

I am naming that one star Ghroznak.

So there.

Now I named it.

It's mine.

Yep, it's that one.

 

[Rikanio]

Here's the link to the zoomable version - truly awesome! http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/

 

[Arktac13]

B E A U tiful O_O
Amazing to see that, thank you +1

My jaw literally dropped!

 

[Jakester13]

It wood be cool if it wasnt so faint - it's actually 6 times bigger than moon in the sky:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/01/moon_and_andromeda_relative_size_in_the_sky.html

Nice! I never knew that!

2 million LY. Now that's a lot of jumps!

 

[Cody]

Kinda daft having an astronomy sub-forum, ain't it?

 

[JonnyC0mbat]

It's also on the NASA astronomy picture of the day: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Have a look through the archives, there are some amazing pictures:
Cassini probe image:

It's a fascinating time to be alive.

 

[Andovar]

wow, the level of detail is amazing! That zoom tool is pretty cool.
Time to start saving up for 600 HD tv's.

 

[CMDR Kamzel]

Amazing!

 

[edd]

1.5 billion pixels is impressive, especially when it's not even the whole galaxy!

A little while back I made a 587 million pixel image from ground based data. Zoomable here.

 

[CaptainSodom]

Came here to post this as an expansion to Elite. We have only 400 billion stars, and Andromeda apparently has a trillion - should last for even the more hardcore players

Which way should I look to see Andromeda in Elite sky?

 

[southofborder]

and even now we can see andromeda constellation in the sky .
need more constellation of this galaxy to learn about.

 

[edd]

Came here to post this as an expansion to Elite. We have only 400 billion stars, and Andromeda apparently has a trillion - should last for even the more hardcore players

Which way should I look to see Andromeda in Elite sky?

Here's an example, although I think I have a foreground star. Down and to the right of it is the Triangulum Galaxy as well.

 

[KulKulcan]

Beautiful!