The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and contains trillions of galaxies. Nature of the nebulae In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

Without Andromeda as a proxy for spiral galaxies in the universe at large ... observational evidence shows that they have very different evolutionary histories, despite growing up in the same ...

The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and spanning a decade, captured over 200 million stars in Andromeda. Observations show Andromeda ... galaxies in the universe and happens ...

Astronomers have released the most detailed image of the Andromeda galaxy ... speck in an unimaginably huge universe, we nonetheless figured all of that out. It shows us that when it comes to ...

Hidden information in maps of galaxies spread across the universe could soon come forth ... Journal Supplement Series. Their results show a factor of between three and five improvement in detail ...

The maps show destruction on a per-structure basis, with red icons indicating a structure that has been at least 50% destroyed, while orange, yellow and green indicate more minor damage and black ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

Hidden information in maps of galaxies spread across the universe could soon come forth, thanks to a new way of interrogating the data that preserves the three-dimensional nature of these maps. The ...

Credit: NASA Goddard The Hubble Space Telescope has been snapping pictures of the universe for the best ... 417-megapixel photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy. And the key takeaway?