Hubble's Largest Panorama Ever Showcases 200 Million Stars

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has released the largest ever photomosaic featuring over 200 million stars -- all of which are bright than our own Sun. It consists of over 600 overlapping Hubble images and 2.5 billion pixels. "That is a huge number, yet only a fraction of the estimated one trillion stars in the Andromeda galaxy," reports TechSpot. "Many of Andromeda's less massive stars are beyond Hubble's sensitivity limit and thus, are not represented in the imaged."

"NASA has multiple sizes of the panoramic available for download, including the full-size 203 MB image (42,208 x 9,870) and a more user friendly 9 MB variant (10,552 x 2,468)."

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[WaterFoodEarthCosmos]

Thanks for sharing BeauHD. Fun to zoom in on the photomosaic.

Seriously great image

[jfdavis668]

Glad the old scope can still produce such wonderful results. Will be a sad day when it finally stops working.

oops I clicked on the 500mb

[Rockoon]

..and they aint got the bandwidth for all of us

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[Mal-2]

I think they're prepared. I highly doubt it'll be worse than a few days ago when Hugging Face got slammed by people trying to download DeepSeek-R1. In my case, I downloaded in excess of 40 GB as fast as my connection could receive it. 500 megabytes is large for an image, but it's nothing next to an LLM or a FLUX.1 checkpoint, and a lot of games will suddenly push more than half a gigabyte at you for an update.

.. in the Andromeda galaxy

[theGreyMuppet]

I have no idea if I am being reasonable or not, but my reaction was: Of course it's published images with 200 million stars or more! It takes pictures of fields of galaxies. My first guess was that this was from our own galaxy, but TFA clarifies that it's Andromeda