Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

The Hubble Space Telescope used quasars to make the most precise map of a galactic halo ever and realized that the Andromeda galaxy's influence stretches into that of our own Milky Way.

Hubble and Curtis hypothesized Andromeda was its own “island universe,” a self-contained system of stars, much like our own Milky Way. At the time, this was an outrageous idea, and was met ...

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. But ...

SEATTLE — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing new photo of the Andromeda Galaxy. The new mosaic image represents the sharpest and largest mosaic image of the Milky Way's galactic ...

This image from Hubble showcases the stars in Andromeda’s giant stellar stream. About a third of the...[+] stars are young: about 6-8 billion years of age, compared to the more typical 11-13 ...

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have mapped out the enormous halo of gas around the nearest major galaxy to us, the Andromeda Galaxy. Skip to main content. Menu ...

Hubble has detailed the size and structure of Andromeda's gas halo – and found that it’s already bumping up against that of the Milky Way, in advance of a cosmic collision.

Earlier research from Hubble’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS)-Halos program studied 44 distant galaxies and found halos like Andromeda’s, but never before has such a massive halo been seen ...

Amid this week's hoopla celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope, don't forget the clever astronomer for whom the space scope was named. In the 1920s, he changed our sense of ourselves and the universe.