Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from the new galaxy.

STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.

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 ...

while the following Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury imaged the southern half. The final image displays the galaxy tilted at a 77-degree angle relative to how we see it from Earth.

Astronomers predict that our home galaxy and the nearest ... before the first Milky Way/Andromeda close encounter. However, if this were not true, and provided that Earth wasn’t dislodged ...

The combined programs collectively cover the entire disk of Andromeda, which is seen almost edge-on -- tilted by 77 degrees relative to Earth's view. The galaxy is so large that the mosaic is ...

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

of Washington) The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky ... value in educating people about the happenings on Earth, and beyond.