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 ...

Today’s 3 Brilliant Minutes is out of this world -- and out of this galaxy! A European Space Agency probe gives us new ...

"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 ...

"You can’t do that with any other large galaxy." Here's how to see it: Planetary alignments aren’t rare, but 6 visible planets are. Hubble, with its sharp imaging capabilities, detected more than 200 ...

Hubble captures largest Andromeda galaxy photomosaic 200 million stars revealed in Andromeda’s stunning image Insights into Andromeda's mergers and star-forming history ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

The combined images reveal the radiant glow of nearly 200 million stars spread across the Andromeda galaxy. This marks the most expansive portrait ever pieced together using observations from the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away ...