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 ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ... with many less massive stars falling below Hubble's sensitivity limit. Photographing Andromeda was a herculean task because ...

The observations recorded by Hubble yield new clues about the history of Andromeda, which looks markedly different from our own galaxy's history, according to NASA. It is one of over 1 trillion ...

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

Without Andromeda as a proxy for spiral galaxies ... of Universities for Research in Astronomy, conducts Hubble science operations for NASA.

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...