{"id":15845,"date":"2015-01-07T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=15845"},"modified":"2015-01-07T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T02:00:12","slug":"hubbles-mind-blowing-high-def-view-of-the-andromeda-galaxy-shows-over-100-million-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/hubbles-mind-blowing-high-def-view-of-the-andromeda-galaxy-shows-over-100-million-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble’s mind-blowing high-def view of the Andromeda Galaxy shows over 100 million stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hubble's<\/p>\n

File this one under ‘M’ for ‘Mindblowing.’<\/p>\n

NASA has assembled the largest ever Hubble Space Telescope image showing\u00a0a portion of the Andromeda galaxy – and it is truly astonishing.<\/p>\n

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\"Hubble's<\/p>\n

Click here to see the full size image<\/a> and \u00a0try to get your head around the fact that everyone one of those tiny dots is a sun. Humbling and mind-boggling.<\/p>\n

Here’s how NASA describes it:<\/p>\n

The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic next-door neighbour.<\/p>\n

Though the galaxy is over 2 million light-years away, The Hubble Space Telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000-light-year-long stretch of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disk. It’s like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand.<\/p>\n

And there are lots of stars in this sweeping view \u2014 over 100 million, with some of them in thousands of star clusters seen embedded in the disk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NASA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File this one under ‘M’ for ‘Mindblowing.’ NASA has assembled the largest ever Hubble Space Telescope image showing\u00a0a portion of the Andromeda galaxy – and it is truly astonishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1049,407,242],"class_list":["post-15845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","tag-hubble","tag-nasa","tag-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/andromeda-galaxy-hubble.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-47z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15848,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845\/revisions\/15848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}