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

Astronomers have completed a stunning massive photomosaic of our closest celestial neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, comprised ...

The astronomical panorama is a major accomplishment because Andromeda is the “closest” large galaxy to ours, at a distance of 2.5 million light years away — equal to the diameter of the Milky Way disk ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

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.

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 ...

Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

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 ...

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 ...