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 ...

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 ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

The streak from a Starlink satellite appears in this image of the Andromeda galaxy, taken by the Zwicky Transient Facility, or ZTF, during twilight on May 19, 2021. The image shows only one ...

Andromeda XXXV is what astronomers term an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, which is exactly what ... Alan W. McConnachie; Image Processing: Marcos Arias) The puzzle is why most Milky Way satellites ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

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 away. It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

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 ...

The “fossil” galaxy that the team discovered has a high concentration of old star... American space agency NASA on Sunday shared the "largest-ever" image assembled of the Andromeda galaxy by ...