Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way. And it is getting closer, as the two will merge in several billion ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...

Video of the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. The camera pans along the Andromeda Galaxy's vast disk which is over 200,000 light-years across. (Credit: ...

A close-up view of a prodigious number of stars in the Andromeda galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / B. Williams (U. of Washington) The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 ...

The Andromeda Galaxy is a time capsule of the early universe, containing stars and other celestial objects that date back to the dawn of time. On a clear, dark night, the Andromeda Galaxy is ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31). It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear ...

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.

It is a panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light years away from Earth. This mosaic took over 10 years to create, captures 200 million stars, still a fraction of Andromeda ...

Messier 31 is located 2.5 million light-years away from Earth and was a much bigger target in the sky than the galaxies ...

Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they find it to be about 2 1/2 million light years away. It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy ...