Happy #GalentinesDay, Ann-dromeda, you opalescent tree shark⁣ ⁣

 

  Happy #GalentinesDay, Ann-dromeda, you opalescent tree shark⁣ :

Over 100 million stars are seen in this sweeping view of the Andromeda galaxy, in the largest-ever image assembled by @NASAHubble – captured seven years ago. Though Andromeda is 2.5 million light-years away, Hubble is powerful enough to see individual stars in this image, which shows a 61,000-light-year stretch of our bigger galactic galaxy. At 260,000 light-years across, Andromeda is over twice the size of the Milky Way, Astronomers believe that our two galaxies will merge, in about 4 billion years.⁣

Andromeda’s core is on the left, surrounded by densely packed stars, moving out from the center, lanes of dust and stars become more sparse, with groups of young blue stars indicating the star clusters and star-forming regions.⁣

⁣Image description: In the lower left, Andromeda’s core shines bright yellow, with whisps of gray dust shrouding it. Moving outward, yellow light fades into blues, blacks, and purples, where millions stars appears as tiny dots in yellow, white, and blue.⁣

⁣Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and L.C. Johnson (University of Washington), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler⁣

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14 February 2024