The Andromeda galaxy, our nearest major galactic ... lies 2.5 million light-years away from Earth and appears in the night sky as a faint, cigar-shaped object. Despite its apparent proximity ...

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

On a crisp autumn night, far from city lights, you can witness one of the most awe-inspiring sights in the sky – the Andromeda Galaxy ... had just begun making stone tools on Earth. That means when ...

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 ...

February kicks off what astronomers call “galaxy season” in the Northern Hemisphere. This time of year offers the best ...

It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night as a ... Photographing Andromeda was a herculean task because the galaxy is a much bigger target on the sky than the galaxies Hubble ...

Astronomers predict that our home galaxy ... on Earth at this time — increasing solar luminosity will have eradicated all life about 2.8 billion years before the first Milky Way/Andromeda ...

STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season ... and Venus all light up the night sky alongside the Moon, according to the Royal Astronomical ...

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 ...

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.