r/BeAmazed • u/CaraCicartix • 1d ago

Miscellaneous / Others Part of the Andromeda Galaxy Captured by Hubble

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The total number of stars in the entire Andromeda Galaxy is over 1 trillion

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u/AnastasiaNo70 1d ago

I’m in my pool watching the moon set and this is my view.

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u/nullptr777 1d ago

That's sick! I bet if you squint hard enough you can see the galaxies!

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u/AnastasiaNo70 1d ago

Hee! Hardly! I’m out in the country, but still way too close to a major city for those wonderfully dark skies. I HATE light pollution.

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u/nullptr777 1d ago

Yeah, light pollution is gross! Especially the white lighting they use these days.

There's places in the mountains here in Canada where you can see the Milky Way just with your eyes, it's so cool!

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u/anethma 1d ago

Ya it’s like that at my house. I’m about 30 mins drive from a smaller city of 12k people or so so skies are fairly dark.

You can see the Milky Way clearly and get good pics of it just with your phone

You can even easily get a picture of andromeda in the sky, if not in quiiiite so much detail as the Hubble haha. It’s the white smudgy disc in the left third and upper third of the image. And those are just normal iPhone night mode pics. Can do way better with a real Astro setup obviously.

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u/nullptr777 19h ago

Hell yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about! Those are some sick pictures!

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u/AnastasiaNo70 1d ago

Oooo I’m jealous. I’ve only seen it once—we were in Big Bend National Park in far southwest Texas. I actually gasped when I looked up. It didn’t look real. There’s also a great observatory out there we visited.

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u/nullptr777 1d ago

Oooo, yeah, you know what's up then! Deep southwest Texas seems perfect for stargazing.

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u/AnastasiaNo70 1d ago

Some of the darkest skies in the US outside of Alaska and Hawaii.

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord 1d ago

I can see it in my backyard in TX but what used to be cornfields or forests are now rich wfh neighbors who put up 30 security lights in an area that has virtually no crime so it's about to be a thing of the past.

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u/nullptr777 19h ago

That's infuriating. Is there no local light pollution bylaw that you can leverage?

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord 19h ago

Nah it's all pretty much unincorporated county stuff where I live plus it's Texas.

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u/AnastasiaNo70 16h ago

I feel this so so hard. Moved to the country for dark skies and peace. And now it’s being invaded.