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 ...

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 ...

“For example, Chandra’s X-rays reveal the high-energy radiation around the supermassive black hole at the center of M31 as ...

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 ...

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.

On Oct. 4, 1923, astronomer Edwin Hubble trained his telescope onto the sky and snapped a photo of a speck of light within the cloudy M31, also known as the Andromeda galaxy.. Hubble initially thought ...

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 Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, glows brightly in a new Hubble Space Telescope image with swathes of ionized gas that fuel star formation.

The first program, the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) program about a decade ago, obtained images at near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths using the Advanced Camera ...

New study finds that the Milky Way has a 50-50 chance of colliding with neighboring galaxy Andromeda. ... Theory based on data from Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia star-tracking mission ...