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 ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

In addition to telling the turbulent history of the Andromeda galaxy, the mosaic will now allow astronomers ... because we can’t even see most of the Milky Way — it’s obscured from our view on Earth.

What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan ...

while the following Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury imaged the southern half. The final image displays the galaxy tilted at a 77-degree angle relative to how we see it from Earth.

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and ...

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...

While Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our Milky Way ... The image took the Hubble telescope over 1,000 orbits around Earth and combines about 600 separate fields of view. It is so detailed ...