It took a decade for NASA to piece together this 416,592,960 pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy and the key takeaway? 'Andromeda's a train wreck'
"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...
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'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.
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2.5-Billion-Pixel Andromeda Galaxy Panorama Worth The Decade Of Hubble Observations
"This was probably due to a collision with another galaxy in the neighborhood." It is possible that the compact satellite of Andromeda known as Messier 32 was the culprit, and that Andromeda stole its ...
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NASA's Hubble traces hidden history of Andromeda galaxy
A possible culprit is the compact satellite galaxy Messier 32, which resembles the stripped-down core of a once-spiral galaxy that may have interacted with Andromeda in the past. Computer ...
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Panorama of Andromeda galaxy unveils hundreds of millions of stars
A possible culprit is the compact satellite galaxy Messier 32, which resembles the stripped-down core of a once-spiral galaxy that may have interacted with Andromeda in the past. Computer ...
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It took a decade for NASA to piece together this 416,592,960 pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy and the key takeaway? 'Andromeda's a train wreck'
The chief potential culprit of the galaxy's apparent state of disarray is the compact satellite galaxy Messier 32, which seems appropriately named given the circumstances. Simulations have ...