It’s an interesting question which gives rise to a responding question: How do those people know that some other type of universe should exist?
The photo is made up of 411 individual photos, and spans about 40,000 light years through space. If you were to download it to your computer it would be near the equivalent of downloading a fully fledged, 3 hour, high definition movie to your hard drive, since the photo is 4.3 gigabytes of hard drive space. Remember, it’s just a photograph. It’s currently the sharpest picture ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy, and if you wanted to show the whole thing on a screen, you’d need about 600 HD TV’s to fit the whole picture.
If you visit the SpaceTelescope.org you can enjoy zooming in and out of the photo without downloading it to your computer.
[Now that last sounds like a good idea.]
To understand why we never hear any more about how Americans have landed on the moon but only about pointless, possibly tax-funded, controversies about other universes, see fingertips.
Hat tip: Daniel Quinones