The Andromeda galaxy (M31), the nearest galaxy to Earths residential

Milky Way, has been rendered into the largest panoramic photograph
to ever be compiled with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope.
Situated over two million light-years away from Earth, Andromeda is
the closest galactic object that provides great potential for producing
high-resolution imagery. Typically, Hubble has its sensitive optics
fixated on galaxies located billions of light-years away; A factor of 1000
times greater.
The details extracted from the recent Hubble image were able to
resolve individual stars within the galaxy. A feat that is comparable to,
photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand, said NASA.
Never before have astronomers been able to see individual stars inside an
external spiral galaxy over such a large contiguous area.
The astronomical distance between the photographer Hubble and the subject
Andromeda is only one aspect of this detailed photos impressiveness. More
impressive is that the panorama allows casual observers and researchers to
sweep across a detailed image that spans 61,000 light-years.
The amount of observable stars in the image exceeds 100 million.
After repairs and modifications to Hubble in 2009, NASA and the Space Telescope
Science Institute reached out to the astronomical community calling for proposals in
conducting a new class of Hubble observations.
These new class of observations were to be apart of what is known as Multi-Cycle
Treasury programs (MCTPs).

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