The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant contributions to the enormous photomosaic that combines ... of the Milky Way disk times 25. In addition to telling the ...

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

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

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31). It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear ...

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

"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 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 ...