The Hubble Space Telescope captures a mosaic image of the Andromeda Galaxy./Courtesy of Benjamin Williams, Cheon Joo, Cliff Johnson, Joseph De Pasquale

This is the largest panorama image created from photographs of the Andromeda Galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope captured 600 images of the Andromeda Galaxy from July 2010 to December 2022. The Andromeda Galaxy is located about 2.5 million light-years (1 light-year is the distance light travels in one year, approximately 9.46 trillion kilometers) from Earth and is the largest galaxy near our own. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the colossal appearance of the Andromeda Galaxy. The astronomy community expects that the photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope will help unravel the secrets of spiral galaxy structure and evolution.

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