1.5 billion pixel image taken of the Andromeda galaxy.

Apparently Hubble has been spying on our neighbor:

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The biggest as well as sharpest image of the Andromeda galaxy, captured by the European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope, was recently released at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. The image in question is a very high-resolution picture of the Andromeda galaxy at 1.5 billion pixels.

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The picture is so detailed that it displays each and every star of the galaxy individually. Scientists also say that there is possibility that some of specks of light seen in the image could be a potential planet like our Earth.

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This image was created as a mosaic of 7,398 exposures taken over the course of 411 pointings of the telescope, according to Hubble officials.

Low res version:



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This one shows you what section you are looking at in the above:



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You can explore a zoomable version of the new PHAT image directly through Hubble here: http://ift.tt/1B8KEsu

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