Before our minds start to reel at these scales, let's return to the Andromeda Galaxy and examine it from our vantage point on the dust-grain planet we call Earth. The remarkable thing is that the ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Here's how to see it:Planetary alignments aren’t rare, but 6 visible planets are. Hubble, with its sharp imaging capabilities, detected more than 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy that ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

The 42,208 by 9,870 pixel panorama features 200 million stars, a mere fraction of the one trillion stars in the Andromeda ... satellite galaxy Messier 32, which seems appropriately named given ...

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 ...

STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. "One of the best planet parades in almost half a century" will seen Mars, Jupiter, Saturn ...

That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. Have you ever seen the Andromeda galaxy? Go outside after dark this month and look high up in the northeast sky and you’ll find the W-shaped ...

Take a good, hard look at the Milky Way Galaxy in the image above ... dragging Earth and the other planets with it. But even though the Milky Way and Andromeda each have 100 billion stars ...