FutureGen Quantum on Instagram: "Andromeda is our closest large galactic neighbor, located 2.5 million light-years away. What you’re seeing in this photo is a section of Andromeda, yet it includes over 100 million stars. In 2015, NASA released the most detailed image ever taken of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) using the Hubble Space Telescope. The image contains over 1.5 billion pixels, and the uncompressed version is nearly 4.3 GB in size. If you printed it at full resolution, it would stretch ove

The light from the cosmos! It felt unreal to see and photograph our cosmic neighbour — the Andromeda Galaxy — along with its two tiny satellite dwarf galaxies, Messier 32 and Messier 110. In the same session, the Pinwheel Galaxy and Orion Nebula made their way into my frames — a night where everything in the universe seemed to align. We were deep inside the Pir Panjal Himalayas, on a wildlife expedition chasing one of Kashmir’s most elusive mammals. But under a Bortle 1 sky, so pure and silent t

Andromeda Constellation: Stars, Myth, and Location (2025) | Planet Guide