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

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

Astronomers have released the most detailed image of the Andromeda galaxy ... Hubble's discovery that our Milky Way galaxy is not alone in the universe. The Hubble Space Telescope is famous ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...

The Hubble Space ... Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ...

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

Video of the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope ... because Andromeda is the “closest” large galaxy to ours, at a distance of 2.5 million light years away—equal to the ...

After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a precision ... Milky Way's disk to map many more stars and ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ... But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda ...