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

On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

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

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

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.

Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA ... who wrote in 964 about a "little cloud" we know today as the Andromeda Galaxy. Less than a hundred years later, Arabic ...

Edwin Hubble's groundbreaking work revealed that Andromeda is outside the Milky Way, challenging the belief that our galaxy encompassed the entire universe, with an estimated distance of 2.5 million ...

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 ...

Over more than ten years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken individual images of the Andromeda Galaxy, which have now been put together to form the largest mosaic of our neighboring galaxy.

This is 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. It took over 10 ...

Video of the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space ... stars in the Andromeda galaxy. The UC Santa Cruz team also studied the collection of stars that reside in the disk-shaped portion ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the ... Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard Hubble to photograph the northern half of Andromeda. This program was followed up by ...