want to feel that we might not be alone, just zoom into the sharpest ever view of Andromeda

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Here's the "full" image

It's actually a cropped version of the full picture. Nonetheless, this has 1.5 billion pixels. Well, not this one I've uploaded, since that would take 6000 HD screens to show properly. Instead, let's zoom in... shall we?
Zoomed in a bit

Already you can see an increase in resolution. Things are starting to look less fuzzy.
And a bit more

See that bright star at the bottom? In the next picture, we'll have zoomed in so much that we'll only see a small halo of it.
A bit further

See? I told you.
Inching closer

Wow! Look at those bright stars! You'd never have guessed they'd be standing out this much from that first picture.
A bit more

Hot damn those are a couple bright looking stars now. Otherwise, though, it's really starting to homogenize, in a speckled sort of way.
I can see my house!

We seem to be focusing in on that center bright star. Just imagine, from your backyard binoculars, you'd never have guessed this star was even there.
Gazing into the infinite

There goes the bright star! Just a smeared halo on the edge of the picture now.
Lots and lots of dots

It's like putting your face up close to a Georges Seurat painting.
Myriad worlds

Every single one of those bright dots - blue, white, orange, red - is a star. A star like our Sun, probably with its own planets. Every. Single. One. And there are light years separating each of them from its nearest neighbors. Sauce: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/
 
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