Triangulum Galaxy in unrivalled detail
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of the Triangulum Galaxy.
Hubble recorded 54 images of the galaxy, totalling a staggering 665 million pixels.
Only three million light-years away, the image of the Triangulum Galaxy reveals 15 million individual stars!
The Triangulum Galaxy is the third largest galaxy in the Local Group, after the Andromeda Galaxy and our Milky Way.
It has no central bulge, or a bar connecting the centre to the spiral arms...
...but its gaseous central region harbours rapid star formation — at a rate of one solar mass every two years.
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