NASA Image of Andromeda Galaxy Is Largest Picture Ever at 1.5B Pixels

NASA has released an image of the Andromeda Galaxy that is being called the largest picture ever taken.

The image, captured by the Hubble Telescope, has 1.5 billion pixels and it would require 600 HD TVs to see the whole thing, USA Today reported.

NASA compared the image to “photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand,” according to a statement.

The Andromeda Galaxy is more than 2 million light-years away. The image includes 100 million stars in a 61,000-light-year-long stretch of the galaxy, the statement said.

A video of the image was posted to YouTube.

Twitter users were impressed.

The gigapixel picture @NASA posted of the Andromeda galaxy is incredible pic.twitter.com/cGZvYwvQWf

— Neel Patel (@Neel1Patel) January 20, 2015

"All we are is dust in the wind"NASA shows largest image ever of Andromeda Galaxy http://t.co/3WLU9Titdq via @USATODAY

— Mike (@Allentownmike) January 20, 2015

Well, NASA's 1.5bn-pixel image of Andromeda galaxy certainly makes my earthly problems feel relatively small http://t.co/I5vd5asPY0

— Lauren Rayner (@LaurenKRayner) January 20, 2015

This giant photo finally captures the mind-numbing scale of the #cosmos: http://t.co/0UgrI2TRhe #NASA #Tech #Space #Photography

— Deb D'Agostino- (@Debnicolina) January 20, 2015

nasa took a 1.5 BILLION pixel picture of the Andromeda galaxy. this is incredible. i love space. http://t.co/6qgoTcDr9W

— ♡☆JORDIN☆♡ (@meowjordin) January 14, 2015

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