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 ...

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

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

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

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 ...

A new image from Hubble shows a beautiful patch of the famous Tarantula Nebula.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...

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 ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula ... most conspicuous star cloud in Andromeda C - A young cluster of blue newborn stars D - The satellite ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda galaxy ... that this so-called "spiral nebula" was actually very far ...

The first attested mention of a nebula comes from the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, who wrote in 964 about a ...