article_snippet: The hundreds of thousands of images beamed back from Hubble
article_snippet: This is one of Hubble's largest images ever made of a complete galaxy.
article_snippet: This is one of Hubble's largest images ever made of a complete galaxy . '
article_snippet: And in January the sharpest and largest image ever taken of the Andromeda Galaxy - the nearest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way.
article_snippet: The Hubble image shows more than 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40,000 light-years.
article_snippet: The sweeping view, which reveals one third of our galactic neighbour, also suggests that the galaxy may have been battered by a collision with another galaxy two billion years ago.
article_snippet: The Hubble image traces the galaxy from The Hubble image central galactic bulge on the left, where stars are densely packed together, across lanes of stars and dust to the sparser outskirts of The Hubble image outer disc on the right. '
article_snippet: Click on The Hubble image to zoom in .
highlights_snippet: Another remarkable image is of NGC 130, one of Hubble's largest images ever made of a complete galaxy .
  