This picture of the Milky Way's other sister galaxy, the Triangulum galaxy or M33, was taken by the MMT Observatory's 6.5-meter 340-megapixel telescope in MMT's attempt to show just how powerful this megacam instrument is.

What better way to show its power than to take a picture of this very attractive galaxy 2.4 million light years away from Earth. You might have expected another image of the Andromeda galaxy, but it's high time the Triangulum galaxy gets more attention. After all, with this photo taken by the Megacam, it shows just how beautiful the galaxy is (even from afar).

The image taken shows Triangulum's eye-catching swirls of stars and dust dotted with brilliant pink nebulae - all thanks to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory-developed Megacam instrument. This camera contains nine million picture elements (pixels) in each of the 36 CCD chips in the camera, making it the largest digicam in the world.

The M33 (Messier 33 or Triangulum galaxy) has pink filaments of hydrogen gas marking regions of active star formation that's very similar to the Orion Nebula of the Milky Way. Looking at the image, the nebula at the upper left spans 1,500 light-years and holds more than 200 hot young stars.

This image is the first image taken by the MMT telescope which will have its "eye" set on continuing to explore space.