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\nThis image, captured with the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy \u2013 otherwise known as M31.\n<\/p>\n
\nThis is a cropped version of the full image and has 1.5 billion pixels. You would need more than 600 HD television screens to display the whole image.\n<\/p>\n
\nIt is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years.\n<\/p>\n
\nThis image is too large to be easily displayed at full resolution and is best appreciated using the zoom tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \t\t\t\t\t \nThis image, captured with the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy \u2013 otherwise known as M31.\n<\/p>\n \nThis is a cropped version of the full image and has 1.5 billion pixels. You would need more than 600 HD television screens to display the whole image.\n<\/p>\n \nIt is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n