The United States Space Agency, NASA, published on Sunday the “largest image ever seen” of the Andromeda galaxy, collected by the Hubble Space Telescope. This is the sharpest image recorded of our galactic neighbor seven years ago.

The image shows a 48,000 light-year-long region of the Andromeda galaxy, with more than 100 million visible stars, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Instagram photo splits the panoramic view into three parts, the last of which shows a ring of blue stars with numerous stars scattered across the image.

Since its sharing, the photograph has captured the interest of Internet users. It has received around a million likes. “It’s really beautiful,” said one user. “It’s amazing,” someone else said. “Very impressively impressive,” the third person commented.

According to the space agency, dozens of star clusters can be identified, given that the Andromeda galaxy is 2.5 million light years away. According to NASA, the size and shape of our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy are similar.

Specifically, the photo was shared again in 2015 after having been published before. In its “natural visible light color,” according to the agency, it represents a region of 48,000 galactic light years. “This galaxy is a much larger target in the sky than the numerous galaxies imaged by Hubble, which are miles of millions of light years away,” NASA noted, because it is only 2.5 million years away. light of the Earth.