Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ...

Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ... foreground stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and two background galaxies far ...

the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision! Don’t worry, though – the distances between stars are vast, so we won’t feel a thing.

The camera pans along the Andromeda Galaxy's vast ... understanding of how Milky Way-like galaxies form and evolve.” This panorama started with the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) ...

Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a map of the Milky Way galaxy, comprised of trillions of ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really ... In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda ... program about a decade ago. Images were obtained at near-ultraviolet ...

NASA recently released images of the ... of the Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31. The Andromeda galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way. The observations recorded ...