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

A 1.5 billion pixels view of the Andromeda Galaxy - In this video, we zoom in on a stunning 1.5 billion-pixel image of the Andromeda Galaxy captured by Hubble Telescope, revealing the intricate details of our nearest galactic neighbor in incredible clarity. This is the 2.0 version of this zoom, revealing more details and advancing the experience. We added a tiny glow to the galaxy for a better experience. This image, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest

Two years after Michael Crichton's "The Andromeda Strain" was published in 1969, the movie adaptation came to theaters. Directed by Robert Wise, the film was a box office success; moreover, a 2003 publication by the Infectious Diseases Society of America noted that The Andromeda Strain is the "most significant, scientifically accurate, and prototypic of all films of this [killer virus] genre ... it accurately details the appearance of a deadly agent, its impact, and the efforts at containing it,