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Andromeda: Hubble mosaic of the spiral galaxy

Joyce Park stashed this in Science

Source: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy...

Joyce Park
9:30 AM Jan 07 2015

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There are 100 million stars in this photo...

Joyce Park
9:30 AM Jan 07 2015

Wow. That's 1.5 billion pixels in that photo, too.

http://pandawhale.com/post/56257/hubble-takes-the-biggest-image-ever-of-andromeda-at-15-billion-pixels

Adam Rifkin
10:06 AM Jan 07 2015

Here it is as a 4k video:

http://pandawhale.com/post/56936/15-gigapixel-andromeda-galaxy-4k-video

Adam Rifkin
7:44 PM Jan 18 2015

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