"It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand." Astronomers announced last week that they had completed a decade-long, meticulous effort to assemble a full portrait of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and ...

Hubble, however, has its limits—the space telescope can only detect stars brighter than our sun. In the image of Andromeda, it pinpointed more than 200 million stars—but that’s still much ...

It is one of over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe and happens to be the most important stellar island near our Milky Way, said the independent space agency. Without Andromeda, astronomers ...

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which is no longer in use, provided us with a magical experience with a view of the Andromeda galaxy. The image depicts the stars and dust clouds in the galaxy.

‘Their expertise, exactness and holistic vision of what a space should be ... To me that is the beauty of Andromeda.’ Rosa Bertoli was born in Udine, Italy, and now lives in London. Since 2014, she ...