Zoomable HST of Andromeda galaxy (M31)

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Zoomable HST of Andromeda galaxy (M31)

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Hubble took a panorama of M31 from July 2010 through October 2013...and here is the final result

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/he ... /zoomable/

It is CPU intensive , zoom in slowly and let the computer have time to load the hi-res!!

Some interesting features:

Globular clusters
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Hot, young OB stars
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Interesting cigar shaped object
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Junwei
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