Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Andromeda Galaxy panorama

Andromeda Galaxy panorama

Voting period ends on 27 Oct 2024 at 17:11:33 (UTC)

Original – This is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy. You would need more than 600 HD television screens to display the whole image. It is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 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.

ALT1 - Full resolution

Reason

This is the largest (and maybe even sharpest) image ever taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. High EV because it shows the star density of the Andromeda Galaxy, and an absolutely amazing image overall. Very surprised it hasn't been nominated yet. There's a 0.7 gigabyte version (File:Andromeda Galaxy M31 - Heic1502a Full resolution.tiff), but that one isn't transcluded anywhere and is so big that it needs to be downloaded to open. Thanks to Chris Woodrich, we now have the full-sized, 1.5 billion-pixel image.

Articles in which this image appears

Andromeda Galaxy, Andromeda (constellation)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Panorama

Creator

NASA

• Support (ALT1) as nominator – SirMemeGod  17:11, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
• Support. My God, it's full of stars! Moonreach (talk) 18:20, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
  • Support alt 1, even better! – Moonreach (talk) 18:58, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
• Comment - Let's not jump the gun... this isn't 2015 anymore, and we can get the full resolution. I'm using the upload Wizard right now.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 18:21, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

That would be marvelous. SirMemeGod  18:23, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

• Support ALT1 - Huge image, excellent quality.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 18:45, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
• Support ALT1 – Yann (talk) 18:52, 17 October 2024 (UTC)