The Andromeda galaxy (M31) has been captured by the Chandra X-ray Telescope. See the imagery and hear a sonification of it.

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Gianluca Masi, Virtual Telescope Project, Background: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, located approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth, is visible to the naked eye under dark skies ...

When I look up at the night sky,"I wonder, when exactly did this light originate?"I sometimes think.This time, I photographed ...

Newswise — A new study using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope finds that star formation in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has undergone a 500-million-year decline, with an even steeper drop in the ...

Andromeda lies 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy similar to our own that has allowed scientists to better understand our galactic home. A new composite image reveals our ...

A long, thin band of light floating in spaceWhen you hear the words 'galaxy floating in the night sky,' many of you probably ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become ...

A new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy has been discovered in the vicinity of Andromeda (M31), the Milky Way's large neighboring galaxy. The new study, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests that the ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, or M31, isn’t just a great-looking spiral galaxy. It’s also the closest to us, which makes it visible to the naked eye from here on Earth. But the fact it’s (well, relatively) so ...