A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars.

Despite its nearness, photographing the entire Andromeda Galaxy is no easy ... required more than 1,000 Hubble orbits to produce the 2.5-billion-pixel image of M31. This new data could help ...

The result is an impressive panorama, revealing approximately 200 million stars and extending six times the apparent diameter ...

Hubble's first gigapixel panorama of the Andromeda Galaxy was published exactly ten years ago. This has now been ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

As GuhaThakurta explained, Hubble’s images captured the number and variety ... Astronomers refer to the Andromeda Galaxy as M31 because it is the 31st object listed in the Messier Catalog, a list of ...