The image they captured is 2.5 million light years away, meaning the photons from those stars took 2.5 million years to cross empty space and hit the telescope lenses that made the image.
Where were we 2.5 million years ago? Humans didn’t even exist!
Keep in mind that the Andromeda galaxy is in a fixture known as the “Local Group”, of which are own galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of. And the universe has billions of similar sized galaxies spread out for billions of light years! Just amazing!
It’s visible now, I believe.
Beautiful!