NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars" that can be seen with the naked eye if weather conditions are just right. About 100 years after astronomer Edwin ...
Using variable stars as distance markers and the giant telescope on Mount Wilson, Edwin Hubble (then a young and little-known astronomer) was able to show that the Andromeda Nebula was over a ...
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 a million ...
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 ...
A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called "spiral nebula" was actually very ... new clues to the evolutionary history of Andromeda, and it looks markedly different from ...
Also use a nebula filter, because it will dim the many ... million light-years away (slightly less than the distance of the Andromeda Galaxy [M31]), you’d probably think, “This has to be ...