The first decades of the twentieth century ... 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 ...

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“This type of galaxy was only discoverable around one system, the Milky Way, in the past,” Bell said. “Now we’re able to look at one around Andromeda and it’s the first time we’ve done ...

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda galaxy. The data suggests Andromeda had a chaotic past unlike ...

NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars ... as shown in the photo above.

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky ... Within the first billion years after the Big Bang, during the universe ...

This galaxy, designated Andromeda XXXV, and its compatriots orbiting our neighbor galaxy, Andromeda, could change how we think about cosmic evolution. That's because dwarf galaxies this small ...

Chelmsford-based Teledyne e2v is highlighting the role of its CCD image sensors in successfully capturing the first light image of the JPCam camera element of the JST/T250 telescope. The system ...

This is a wide-angle view of the distribution of known satellite galaxies orbiting the large Andromeda galaxy (M31), located 2.5 million light-years away. The Hubble Space Telescope was used to ...

This breakthrough provides a clearer picture of the galaxy's structure ... emissions from 42 novae in the Andromeda Galaxy. This marks the first detection of such emissions during their outbursts ...