To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

But because scientists continue to analyse the data, these new findings open exciting possibilities for understanding how our neighbouring ... this galaxy is one among the closest to the Milky ...