Some mind-blowing facts about the Andromeda Galaxy | The Secrets Of The Universe

Exploring the beauty of the Andromeda galaxy (also known as Messier 31 or simply M31). The final close-up view is a Hubble Space Telescope image that “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.” — ESA. • The Andromeda galaxy is located ~2.5 million light-years away. It is the Milky Way’s largest galactic neighbor. The Andromeda galaxy spans ~260,000 light-years across and hosts a

Zoom into the Andromeda galaxy The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic neighbor. Though the galaxy is over 2 million light-years away, the Hubble telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000-light-year-long section of the galaxy's pancake-shaped disk. It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand. An