It’s the Milky Way like you’ve never seen it before. Hailed as a milestone, Australian astronomers have released a spectacular new image of the galaxy home to our solar system. The photograph, showing the expansive galactic plane, took 18 months to construct and is the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way. #10news #space #milkyway #galaxy #stars | 10 News

Zoom into the Andromeda galaxy The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic neighbor. Though the galaxy is over 2 million light-years away, the Hubble telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000-light-year-long section of the galaxy's pancake-shaped disk. It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand. An

Marking 30 years in orbit, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed astonishing secrets about our universe. Yet, while its most famous pictures may reveal galaxies and nebulae across the cosmos, it’s also unlocked secrets here in our own solar system. For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. | NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center