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

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 ...

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

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

the Hubble Space Telescope can see a lot of it. It's also great for things that are much closer, like our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Despite its nearness, photographing the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image you see above is from last ... Blasting from the central galaxy — home to a black hole more than 400 million times our sun — is a powerful jet that could ...

In the years following the launch of 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 ...

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the largest mosaic image of our neighbouring galaxy 2.5 million light years away. The Andromeda galaxy is our closest neighbour, when it comes to galaxies.

Andromeda galaxy in its entirety in the largest photomosaic ever made by the Hubble Space Telescope. | Credit: NASA, ESA, Benjamin F. Williams (UWashington), Zhuo Chen (UWashington), L.