The rosy red structures of a nearby galaxy glow brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Andromeda Galaxy — the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor — is located about 2.5 ...
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 Hubble Space Telescope has captured nearly 7,400 exposures of the Andromeda Galaxy, creating a mosaic image that reveals over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters within its disk.