Ultraviolet and Optical Photometry of over 90 Million Stars in M31 ... image reveals approximately 200 million stars and extends six times the apparent diameter of the full Moon in the night sky.

At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula, also called M31, was nearly ... glass plates ...

Scientists have just finished a decade-long project to image Andromeda in unprecedented detail. The final image clocks in at a whopping 2.5 gigapixels. Hubble gazes at galaxies all the time—the ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

Image: Pic: Planet Labs The images from 4 February show 140 newly appeared tents at the facility. A comparison with previous satellite imagery shows all were ... tracking data, Sky News has ...

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... the rocket's expanding engine plume against the darkening sky, as the vehicle climbed high into Earth's atmosphere ...