Zooming in on the Andromeda Galaxy

This video begins with a ground-based view of the night sky, before zooming in on a Hubble image of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31.

The new Hubble image of the galaxy is the biggest Hubble image ever released and 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.

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[brianuuuSonicReborn]

Meanwhile in some exoplanet in Andromeda: "Zooming in on the Milky Way Galaxy"

[yummyyuns]

There MUST be life near some of these shiny dots.

[SancLunatic]

Crazy to think each of those dots of light is a star and in reality all those stars are actually probably a few light years apart from each other.

[osasunaitor]

So we can actually see the stars in Andromeda??? The stars in another galaxy??? Mindblowing :O

[moistmike]

It's mind-blowing to consider that each galaxy contains billions of stars. Incomprehensible.

[artdonovandesign]

Imagine what Copernicus would have given to see this?

[rabsoul]

I think people forget that looking at something that far away is basically looking through a time machine. 😅

[nanditapathakmusic]

This is exactly what I see when I rub my eyes !

[m_lockwood]

On Alien planet : "Zooming on Milky Way, our nearest neighbor"

[herc]

Its crazy to think how this is hurdling toward us at over 400 km/s. Wow

[sivis]

Astonishing how tranquil and beautiful it is.

[jxwads]

The beauty of the space is incredible. It's so well structured and mysterious. Everything is well-placed and follow gravity rules. I am in love of this infinite view.

[starpawsy]

For completion purposes, you can see the large companion galaxies of the main galaxy. M110 is the galaxy disappearing at bottom centre at 0:26, and M32 is the slightly smaller but much brighter one disappearing just below left centre at 0:30. Finally, the large star cloud disappearing at the bottom right corner at0:35 is designated NGC 206. All of the other hundreds of clusters and nebulae you can see later on do not have NGC designations.

[benw]

Can not WAIT for the images we’ll be graced with from the James Webb telescope

[Obeijin]

Over 2 million light years away !
We are seeing her as she was two million years ago !

[themystique]

I've seen this video some 100 times.. yet I don't get bored of it!

[FaelFabriEngineering]

Look at the amount of stars there is in Andromeda!!!!

[ASHOKCHOUDHARY-zrqi]

N we are fighting here for small small pieces of land!!

[AlroyMartins]

I need to go lie down... My brain hurts

[Davechow]

Amazing. We can zoom in so close, and capture such fine detail that we see individual stars in another galaxy!