Astronomers have unveiled the largest-ever photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, a sprawling celestial giant with over 1 ...

Credit: NASA / ESA / B. Williams (U. of Washington) The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to ...

Photographing Andromeda was a herculean task because the galaxy is a much bigger target on the sky than the galaxies Hubble routinely observes, which are often billions of light-years away.

Photographing Andromeda - located 2.5 million light-years away - was a Herculean task because the galaxy is a much bigger target in the sky than the galaxies Hubble routinely observes, which are ...

"It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand." Astronomers announced last week that they had completed a decade-long, meticulous effort to assemble a full portrait of ...

At 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy—officially called Messier 31—is the farthest object visible to the naked eye. It appears as a fuzzy cigar shape in the sky on clear and ...

Astronomers have released the most detailed image of the Andromeda galaxy with new clues about ... who used shadows cast by the sun at two different locations to make the first accurate ...

Due to its proximity to the Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy appears six times the diameter of the full moon in the sky (as seen from Earth) which was a lot of "celestial real estate" for Hubble's ...