The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The result is an impressive panorama, revealing approximately 200 million stars and extending six times the apparent diameter ...

Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.

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

Despite its nearness, photographing the entire Andromeda Galaxy is no easy ... required more than 1,000 Hubble orbits to produce the 2.5-billion-pixel image of M31. This new data could help ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

Hubble's sharp imaging capabilities can resolve more than 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy, detecting only stars brighter than our Sun. They look like grains of sand across the beach.