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

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

The mosaic spans the full width of the galaxy, covering an area six times larger than the full Moon in the night sky. Because Hubble is designed for pinpoint accuracy rather than wide-field imaging, ...

This image, captured by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), showcases the expansive Andromeda Galaxy, also referred to as Messier 31 or M31. This image of M31, our nearest major ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

The most detailed panorama of the entire Andromeda galaxy is packed with science that could revolutionize our understanding of how spiral galaxies across the universe form and evolve.

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

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.

The stunning panorama features over 600 overlapping Hubble images that have been painstaking stitched together. Spread across 2.5 billion pixels, you'll find some 200 million stars ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided unprecedented details about the Andromeda galaxy's history and characteristics. Andromeda, a galaxy 2.5 million light-years from Earth, has been ...

The Andromeda galaxy, the closest large galaxy to Earth, has intrigued astronomers for over a century. A new study by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals stunning details about this cosmic ...