The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

While Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our Milky Way, is moving toward us, further measurements of other galaxies by Hubble and Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître subsequently found that more ...

the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision! Don’t worry, though – the distances between stars are vast, so we won’t feel a thing.

"This is the first time that we can see such detailed structures for an external galaxy." Due to its proximity to the Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy appears six times the diameter of the full ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and ...

Astronomers have tallied more than a trillion galaxies floating around our universe but one stands out among them all in the night sky due to its proximity to the Milky Way. While 2.5 million ...

The Andromeda nebula ... redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth.

The Andromeda galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way. The observations recorded by Hubble yield new clues about the history of Andromeda, which looks markedly ...

The target is the vast Andromeda galaxy that is only 2.5 million light-years from Earth, making it the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way. Andromeda is seen almost edge-on, tilted by 77 degrees ...