"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

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

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

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

But in the century since, telescopes like Hubble ... light-years from Earth, which is comparatively tiny on a cosmic scale, Andromeda is the most easily accessible galaxy to us — and has helped ...

Weisz continues: “Andromeda looks like a transitional type of galaxy that’s between a star ... Its stated mission is to search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing as ...

but 6 visible planets are. Hubble, with its sharp imaging capabilities, detected more than 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy that are brighter than Earth's sun. But astronomers estimate ...