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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Hubble, however, has its limits—the space telescope ... existed within the Milky Way, per the NASA statement. But when Andromeda proved to be its very own galaxy, astronomers realized the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ... 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)." ...

Toward the end of the 18th century, astronomer William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way ... Space Telescope has pushed the envelope even farther. The current record holder is a ...

For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the Milky Way was the ... The James Webb Space Telescope has pushed the envelope even farther. The current record holder is a galaxy a staggering ...