Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

It gets its name from the constellation it’s found within the boundaries of—Andromeda. In Greek mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of the king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia. Both of those ...

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 ...

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 constellation of Cassiopeia. Think of its second V ...

to precisely measure the distance to a fuzzy object in the constellation of Andromeda. Edwin Hubble seated at the 2.5-metre reflecting telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California.

called the Andromeda Nebula (after the constellation in which it was located). It was entry 31 in Charles Messier's 18th century catalog of interesting fuzzy objects, and is thus also called M31 ...

October’s dark and often clear skies are perfect for enjoying the fall constellations. Some of them are fairly dim, but if you like a challenge, grab a star chart and go outside soon after ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and ...

October belongs to Pegasus and the water constellations, which float through the southern sky after nightfall. Reigning supreme high in the south are the Great Square of Pegasus and, stretching from ...

On a clear, dark night, the Andromeda Galaxy is visible to the naked eye as a faint, fuzzy patch in the constellation Andromeda. The Andromeda Galaxy has a complex magnetic field that plays a ...

to precisely measure the distance to a fuzzy object in the constellation of Andromeda. He identified a star called V1, a Cepheid variable, which predictably pulsates in brightness over time ...

older texts often called it the Andromeda Nebula) is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda.