The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos to showcase over 200 million stars.

They published a paper in the May 2008 issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society entitled “The Collision Between the Milky Way and Andromeda.” (Admittedly, be wary of the term ...

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

The astronomical panorama is a major accomplishment because Andromeda is the “closest” large galaxy to ours, at a distance of 2.5 million light years away—equal to the diameter of the Milky Way disk ...

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

STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...

Astronomers have tallied more than a trillion galaxies floating around our universe but one stands out among them all in the night sky ... Milky Way. While 2.5 million light-years away, the ...