Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

Miguel Claro, an astrophotographer, spent five years capturing a stunning image of the Andromeda Galaxy from Portugal's Dark ...

Ladi Svoboda told Snopes that the photo was "real but artistically interpreted," while noting that similar shots were ...

April is also a good month for galaxy-watching with the help of a telescope, including the Andromeda Galaxy ... one of the brightest stars in the night sky. “All you have to do is kick back ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of them orbit, and now this lopsidedness. It just goes to show that sometimes it ...

making it easier to see in the night sky. While you could go out and try to find the comet in the sky on your own, if you want to view its rare conjunction with the Andromeda Galaxy easily ...

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way ... After six billion years of cosmic carnage, Earth's night sky would be ablaze with the elliptical galaxy's bright, new core ...

Boing Boing’s Maggie Koerth-Baker made a great comparison today between the actual Andromeda Galaxy (which is 2.5 million years away ... GIF shows a comparison between what’s actually in the sky and ...

Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they find it to be about 2 1/2 million light years away. It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy ...

The dust rings of the Andromeda Galaxy stand out in this infrared image ... of additional dipper stars found in another region of the sky. “Extraterrestrial intelligence is a low-probability ...