A close-up view of a prodigious number of stars in the Andromeda galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / B. Williams (U. of Washington) The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 ...

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 ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, is unveiled in Hubble's largest photomosaic. Spanning a decade, this 2.5-billion-pixel image reveals 200 million stars and Andromeda’s dynamic ...

His remark holds true now, nearly half a decade later. At 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy—officially called Messier 31—is the farthest object visible to the naked eye.

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

Messier 32 resembles the stripped-down core of an ex-spiral galaxy in the nearby vicinity, suggesting the two may have had a coming together in the distant past. Weisz continues: “Andromeda ...

It's also great for things that are much closer, like our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Despite its nearness, photographing the entire Andromeda Galaxy is no easy task.

That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. Have you ever seen the Andromeda galaxy? Go outside after dark this month and look high up in the northeast sky and you’ll find the W-shaped ...