A panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away, requiring over 600 Hubble overlapping snapshots to stitch together.

Check Out the Hubble Space Telescope’s Stunning New View of the Andromeda Galaxy The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was used to study the entire population of 36 mini-galaxies circled in yellow. Andromeda is the bright spindle-shaped object at image center.

Together, PHAT and PHAST required more than 1,000 Hubble orbits to produce the 2.5-billion-pixel image of M31. This new data could help astronomers understand why Andromeda and the Milky Way could ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, glows brightly in a new Hubble Space Telescope image with swathes of ionized gas that fuel star formation.

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided unprecedented details about the Andromeda galaxy's history and characteristics. Andromeda, a galaxy 2.5 million light-years from Earth, has been ...

Hubble's new image of the Sombrero Galaxy, Messier 104. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll. Messier 104 was discovered back in 1781 by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain—and has since been the ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but ...

This is the largest photomosaic ever made by the Hubble Space Telescope. The target is the vast Andromeda galaxy that is only 2.5 million light-years from Earth, making it the nearest galaxy to ...