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.

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent Andromeda galaxy ... own Milky Way galaxy -- at a distance of approximately 2.5 ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda galaxy ... own Milky Way galaxy —at a distance of approximately 2.5 ...

Beneath that is a selection of intriguing sights within the mosaic, labeled A through E: A: Star clusters in Andromeda, foreground stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and two background galaxies far ...

This stunning image of NGC 6951 is captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cepheus. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years ...

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 ...

ESA said: "But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way: the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31)." The galaxy can be seen with the naked eye on ...