Huge (Beautiful) Hi-Res Photo of ‘Infrared Andromeda’ with 1 Trillion Stars

Posted on June 14, 2006 by Scott

Again the Universe amazes me with it’s beauty.

“…the full mosaic image is composed of about 3,000 individual frames. The data confirm that Andromeda (aka M31) houses around 1 trillion stars, compared to 4 hundred billion for the Milky Way.”

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