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 ...

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

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

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

The NSF NOIRLab-operated Gemini North telescope captured stunning imagery of galaxies UGC 12914 and UGC 12915, aka 'Taffy ...

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

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has used its sensitive instruments to create a mosaic image containing 2.5 billion of the Milky Way's closest neighbor.

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 ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way — the ...