"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...

Astronomers have released the most detailed image of the Andromeda galaxy with new clues about its evolutionary history to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble's discovery that our ...

NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars" that can be seen with the naked eye if weather conditions are just right. About 100 years after astronomer Edwin ...

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 ...

(NASA/ESA/Williams/Univ. of Wash. via SWNS) By Dean Murray A jaw-dropping new panorama of Andromeda galaxy took 10 years to create. The largest photomosaic of the cosmic wonder was assembled from ...

That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. Have you ever seen the Andromeda galaxy? Go outside after dark this month and look high up in the northeast sky and you’ll find the W-shaped ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

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 ...

Messier 32 resembles the stripped-down core of an ex-spiral galaxy in the nearby vicinity, suggesting the two may have had a coming together in the distant past. Weisz continues: “Andromeda ...