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 ...

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 ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda galaxy ... that this so-called "spiral nebula" was actually very far ...

A century ago, the American astronomer Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called ‘spiral nebula’ was approximately 2.5 million light years away from our Milky Way Galaxy. Now, the NASA/ESA ...

At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula ... but there was no data to support ...

The first attested mention of a nebula comes from the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, who wrote in 964 about a ...

Beneath that is a selection of intriguing sights within the mosaic, labeled A through E: A: Star clusters in Andromeda, foreground stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and two background galaxies far ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent Andromeda galaxy ... that this so-called 'spiral nebula' was actually very far ...

The image contains bright blue star clusters, background galaxies, foreground stars, satellite galaxies, and dust lanes. This is the largest photomosaic ever made by the Hubble Space Telescope.