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

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ...

Scientists have created the largest mosaic image of a galaxy 2.5 million lightyears away. The Andromeda Galaxy, our closest ...

Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...

Andromeda's total population is estimated to ... "This was probably due to a collision with another galaxy in the neighborhood." A possible culprit is the compact satellite galaxy Messier 32 ...

This comparative perspective is akin to “trying to understand the layout of New York City by standing in the middle of Central Park,” making Andromeda an invaluable reference for galactic studies. A ...

“Andromeda’s a train wreck. 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. “This was probably due to a collision with ...

Astronomers completed a 10-year project to assemble a complete portrait of the Andromeda galaxy. The result is a detailed ...

In about 4.5 billion years, the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision! Don’t worry, though – the distances between stars are vast ...