You will see first our Milky Way galaxy from the Earth's point of view before zooming in on a Hubble image of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31.

The new Hubble image of the galaxy is the giant Hubble image ever released. It shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching over 40 000 light-years.

Credit:
NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger (Skysurvey.org), J. Dalcanton (University of Washington, USA), B. F. Williams (University of Washington, USA), L. C. Johnson (University of Washington, USA), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler.

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