I think she’s referring to the hi-res pic of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, released earlier this month. It’s 6000 × 1918 px. It’s not 40,000 light years AWAY (more like 2.5 million ly), but the part of the galaxy included in the pic (they didn’t get it all) stretches over about 40,000 ly. By comparison, the Sun and solar system are 25-30,000 light years from the center of our galaxy; and M31 is somewhat larger than ours.A Jumbotron can’t show all the pixels (of course, those aren’t all that high res). There are monitors that exceed 6000 px wide, and you could see everything on those. Of course a regular computer monitor couldn’t begin to show all the pixels.These hi-res Hubble shots are amazing.http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/02/
I think she’s referring to the hi-res pic of M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, released earlier this month. It’s 6000 × 1918 px. It’s not 40,000 light years AWAY (more like 2.5 million ly), but the part of the galaxy included in the pic (they didn’t get it all) stretches over about 40,000 ly. By comparison, the Sun and solar system are 25-30,000 light years from the center of our galaxy; and M31 is somewhat larger than ours.A Jumbotron can’t show all the pixels (of course, those aren’t all that high res). There are monitors that exceed 6000 px wide, and you could see everything on those. Of course a regular computer monitor couldn’t begin to show all the pixels.These hi-res Hubble shots are amazing.http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/02/