Andromeda lies 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy similar to our own that has allowed scientists to better understand our galactic home.

Dynamics of the Andromeda Nebula. The peculiar galaxy NGC 1275. UGC 2885, the largest known spiral galaxy. NGC 3067. SO galaxies with polar rings. A pair of non interacting spiral galaxies. Some ...

There are, however, questions requiring some imagination, such as (p. 305) “Describe the appearance of the heavens as viewed from somewhere in the arms of Andromeda Nebula”.

Our focus is a small silvery craft parked up in the towering atrium, a vehicle that is about to be launched. Yet unlike a conventional rocket launch, there’s no countdown. Nor do we have to retire to ...

News Published: 19 September 1907 Our Astronomical Column Nature 76, 526–527 (1907) Cite this article ...

Renzo Piano: the man behind the studio Piano has a highly rare set of skills and understandings that make this apparently impossible contradiction of contemporary architecture possible. Famously, his ...