Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...

Just east of Betelgeuse is the fine binocular cluster NGC 2244. But the much fainter Rosette Nebula that lies around the ...

Astronomers will also be able to see the constellations of Perseus, Cassiopeia and Andromeda, who are figures in Greek mythology. Clare said: “We’ll also be able to see the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the ...

On a clear, dark night, the Andromeda Galaxy is visible to the naked eye as a faint, fuzzy patch in the constellation Andromeda. The Andromeda Galaxy has a complex magnetic field that plays a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and ...

A close-up view of a prodigious number of stars in the Andromeda galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / B. Williams (U. of Washington) The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way -- the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31). It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear ...

Video of the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. The camera pans along the Andromeda Galaxy's vast disk which is over 200,000 light-years across. (Credit: ...

Astronomers predict that our home galaxy and the nearest major galaxy to it, Andromeda (2.5 million light-years away), will collide and eventually merge between 3.9 billion and 5.6 billion years ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a galaxy in Gemini, hosting the Type Ia supernova SN 2022aajn, located 600 million light-years away. Type Ia ...