A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

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 ...

THE 200 inch telescope on Palomar Mountain has recently been used for a detailed photometric and spectroscopic study of the globular clusters associated with the Andromeda nebula. This ...

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

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation ... astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced ...

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 ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called 'spiral nebula' was actually very ... island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31).

Orion? The Orion Nebula! Andromeda? The Andromeda Galaxy, of course! Lyra? Easy – the Ring Nebula. And Perseus? Has to be The Double Cluster, right? Not all constellations have such a claim to fame.