Some were clearly groups of many stars, but in 1907 there was no way to say how far away ... (including William Herschel) called the Andromeda Nebula (after the constellation in which it was ...

Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with Hubble's handwritten circle around the variable star he discovered In 1919 American astronomer Edwin Hubble began work at the Mount Wilson Observatory in ...

It proved the Andromeda Nebula is immensely distant from Earth, demonstrating that the Milky Way is not the whole universe, but one island of stars among many. It took much longer to grasp just ...

The never-seen-before images of the Sun, Andromeda ... Orion Nebula's new infrared image produced by using previously released data from three telescopes shows only dust and no stars.

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

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...

background galaxies seen much farther away, and photobombing by a couple bright foreground stars that are actually inside our Milky Way B - NGC 206 the most conspicuous star cloud in Andromeda C ...