"It was actually a total surprise to find the satellites in that configuration and we still don’t fully understand why they ...

as the Andromeda nebula. In fact, all the many galaxies scattered through the sky were referred to as spiral nebulae. Even though a lot of them, of varying sizes, shapes, and orientations ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

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 ...

A spectacular view of the Cat’s Eye Nebula! Captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, this image of nebula (NGC 6543) shows ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

The Godzilla Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Sagittarius that resembles the movie monster Godzilla. The image was captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Some drift alone, untouched for eons. Others collide, tangle, and reshape. The Milky Way and Andromeda belong to the latter category – two immense spiral galaxies, locked in a slow but inevitable ...