About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...

Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way. And it is getting closer ... partly inspired by the infamous Tumblr post "Do you love the color of the sky?" We promise you, the scrolling will ...

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

It's also great for things that are much closer, like our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Despite its ... fields of PHAST (grey) and PHAT (blue). Credit: NASA / ESA / Chen et ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31). It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy ... A - Clusters bright blue stars embedded within the galaxy, background galaxies seen much farther ...

NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ... A - Clusters bright blue stars embedded within the galaxy, background galaxies seen much farther away, and photobombing by a couple ...