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A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...
The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing in the night sky, larger than a full moon. Textbooks ...
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31, NGC 224) is a truly stunning and colossal presence in our universe, located 2.5 million light years away in the Andromeda constellation. This supergiant spiral galaxy, often ...
The Milky Way's plane obscures our view of most stars in our own galaxy, but an even grander spiral -- Andromeda -- lies 2.5 million light years away.
The Andromeda galaxy’s dusty pink arms contrast with older stars that glow blue in a striking new image from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Using about 3000 separate exposures, Pauline Barmby of ...
All the stars in our galaxy are moving relative to one another, usually at speeds no more than about 100 kilometers per second. Some stars move much faster, and a few have huge velocities, of the ...
Unlike the Sun, these newfound stars do not reside in the Milky Way’s familiar thin disk, which is about 100,000 light-years across and home to most of our galaxy’s young stars.
A new view of the Andromeda Galaxy reveals hot, young stars in ultraviolet light. NASA's Swift satellite acquired the highest-resolution view of a neighboring spiral galaxy ever attained in the ...
Find The Andromeda Galaxy, The Final Stars Of Summer And A Diamond-Shaped Dolphin: What You Can See In The Night Sky This Week. ByJamie Carter. Follow Author. Share. Save. Innovation Science.
The Andromeda galaxy's spiralling stars are played as musical notes in a new NASA observatory video, creating a cosmic crescendo that's out of this world. The sonification video, ...
Building Andromeda: Galaxy ended up with stars orbiting at right angles Our nearest big neighbor has a complicated history that's hard to explain.