This sweeping bird's-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest image ever taken of our galactic next-door neighbor. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible ...

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 ...

This image, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy -- otherwise known as M31. NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton (University ...

M31, the spiral galaxy in Andromeda, with its two companion elliptical galaxies, the very small M32 ... [+] below, and larger M110 above. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via ...

But with this new, larger telescope, Hubble was able to resolve images of the nebulae that showed individual stars. Around 1924, Hubble was looking at the Andromeda nebula and found to his ...

A Jellyfish Galaxy Adrift: The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. A Galaxy with Tendrils: This image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope ...

NASA has shared the largest-ever image assembled of the Andromeda galaxy by the Hubble Space Telescope. Researchers hope that further work – including from the recently launched James Webb Space ...

Peculiar Pair IC 4271: This new Hubble Space Telescope image of IC 4271, also known as Arp 40, is a curious pair of spiral galaxies some 800 million light-years away. Monster Galaxy with an ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers revealed the galaxy's classification. The stunning image is a result of combining ultraviolet data with optical data collected by Hubble's Wide Field ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other ...

A brand new image snapped by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals the intricate details of the core of the distant "Sombrero Galaxy." This galaxy, officially known as Messier 104 (M104 ...