Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...

"The full mosaic was carried out under two Hubble ... C: A star-forming region in Andromeda with young blue stars. D: A satellite galaxy known as M32. It could be the leftover core of a galaxy ...

In addition to telling the turbulent history of the Andromeda Galaxy, the mosaic will now allow astronomers to better understand our similarly spiraled Milky Way. Without Andromeda as a proxy for ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda ...

A special feature visible in the mosaic are dim clouds in between the stars in our own galaxy, they appear in light blue ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more ... wrote in the statement. The mosaic contains roughly 2.5 billion ...

These include mergers with smaller galaxies that have left behind streams of stars and clusters of young blue ... The mosaic’s ability to resolve individual stars across the galaxy offers ...

The galaxy is so large that the mosaic is assembled from approximately 600 separate fields of view. The mosaic image is made up of at least 2.5 billion pixels. The complementary Hubble survey ...

adding almost 100 million stars to the previous mosaic. Together, the two halves capture the glow of nearly 200 million stars across the Andromeda galaxy, marking the largest ever portrait ...

The survey, shown as a mosaic, was assembled from two ... A - Clusters bright blue stars embedded within the galaxy, background galaxies seen much farther away, and photobombing by a couple ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...