Image reveals the 48,000-light-year-long stretch of the Andromeda galaxy.

American area company NASA on Sunday shared the “largest-ever” picture assembled of the Andromeda galaxy by the Hubble Space Telescope. The image was captured seven years in the past and it’s the sharpest massive composite picture ever taken of our galactic neighbour.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration stated that the picture reveals the 48,000-light-year-long stretch of the Andromeda galaxy with over 100 million stars in view. The panoramic picture is split into three elements within the Instagram publish, with the final half displaying a band of blue stars with numerous stars scattered all through the picture.

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“This image is split into three images. The first image shows a bright spot emanating from the lower left portion of the Andromeda galaxy with bands extending out in all directions. The light recedes in the top quarter of the image to primarily black and bits of blue space with countless stars. The second photo has light dissipating with bands of purple and blue giving way to the blackness of space,” NASA wrote within the caption. 

Since being shared, the picture has left web customers mesmerised. It has accrued a couple of million likes. One person wrote, “It is extraordinarily beautiful.” Another stated, “It is phenomenal.” “Absolutely incredible,” commented third. 

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The area company defined that as a result of the Andromeda galaxy lies 2.5 million light-years away, one can determine hundreds of star clusters. NASA stated that our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda are comparable in dimension and form. 

Notably, the picture was first launched in 2015 and reshared yesterday. It reveals a 48,000-light-year-long stretch of the galaxy in its “natural visible-light colour”, the company had stated. “Because the galaxy is only 2.5 million light-years from Earth, it is a much bigger target in the sky than the myriad galaxies Hubble routinely photographs that are billions of light-years away,” NASA defined.