New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed surprising activity inside the Andromeda galaxy. The data ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away, ...

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full moon. What backyard observers don't ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

A Hubble Space Telescope study takes a close look at the dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda. Credit: NASA / ESA / J. Dalcanton / B.F. Williams / L.C. Johnson / PHAT team / R. Gendler Surrounding the ...

This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away. It took over ...

Galactic neighbor: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a massive panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), which is situated just over 2.5 million light-years away from ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

It might be old, bits of it might go offline with increasing regularity, but Hubble still does cutting edge science as this enormous portrait of Andromeda shows. Pop quiz: how old is the Hubble Space ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

Historically, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) was a subject of extensive debate, initially considered a "nebulous smear" and later central to the "island universe" hypothesis proposing its status as an ...

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers don't ...