Miguel Claro, an astrophotographer, spent five years capturing a stunning image of the Andromeda Galaxy from Portugal's Dark ...

According to our best understanding, the universe should be homogeneous at large scales. This means that it's ok to have ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

It takes a long exposure with a good telescope to capture enough faint light from the galaxy to reveal its colors and the details of its spiral structure. Still, if you get to see the Andromeda ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation ... half of its satellites co-orbit in a thin, planar structure, reminiscent of planets orbiting the sun. The coexistence of such a plane ...

As Andromeda and the Milky Way merge, both will lose their disk-like structure, forming a single elliptical galaxy that some astronomers have dubbed “Milkomeda.” If the size of the universe ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation ... half of its satellites co-orbit in a thin, planar structure, reminiscent of planets orbiting the Sun. The coexistence of such a plane ...