With images from the Hubble Space Telescope, we have new information here in the Milky Way about our closest neighboring galaxy, Andromeda. Researchers unveiled the most comprehensive survey of the ...

Also called M31—and our closest giant neighboring galaxy at just 2.5 million light years away—Andromeda is home to at least a trillion stars. Like the Milky Way, it’s a spiral galaxy ...

The observable universe is about 93 billion light-years in diameter.” This can be explained as the distance from the Earth to ...

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 ...

neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. According to a new study, our Milky Way galaxy may have already begun colliding with the closest giant galaxy ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the largest mosaic image of our neighbouring galaxy 2.5 million light years away. The Andromeda galaxy is our closest neighbour, when it comes to galaxies.

Assembled from a total of 7,398 exposures taken over 411 individual pointings of the telescope, this image of our nearest major galactic neighbor, M31, is the largest Hubble mosaic to date.

Presented last week at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society and published in The Astrophysical Journal, the new “photomosaic” also sheds light on our neighboring galaxy’s ...