How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

Astronomers announced last week that they had completed a decade-long, meticulous effort to assemble a full portrait of our ...

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 Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, visible to the naked eye and set to merge with our galaxy in the distant future The Nearest Large Spiral Galaxy: ...

A century ago, a star in Andromeda named V1 launched a revolution in astronomy, revealing its true immensity and the origin ...

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. It took over ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

Astronomers combined datasets across the entire energy spectrum to create the composite image seen above. The newest glimpses at Andromeda are based on composite data collected by an international ...

Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the immense halo of gas enveloping the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest massive galactic neighbor, is about six times larger and 1,000 ...