An image purportedly showing the Andromeda Galaxy next to the moon circulated in May 2016, along with the claim that it was taken from Finland and without the aid of a telescope.

So far, the shortest day ever recorded was July 5, 2024, when Earth rotated 1.66 milliseconds faster than usual. This year, ...

The Andromeda galaxy in the ultraviolet, as seen by NASA’s GALEX mission. Click to hugely galactinate, and you want to, because wow. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Imagine you're an alien living in the Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million light-years away, peering back at Earth through a massive ...

Find the Andromeda Galaxy: Early September The night sky is filled with countless stars, but with the help of a telescope, onlookers can see over 1 trillion stars bunched together in the depths of ...

Andromeda Galaxy. With a new moon bringing dark skies on Saturday, November 22, it's the perfect time to hunt down the most distant object visible to the naked eye: the great Andromeda galaxy.

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full moon. What backyard observers ...

The next clear evening, before the bright moon washes out the fainter stars, take a look for the Andromeda galaxy. Unless you have significant light pollution, you should be able to see it high in ...

The next clear evening, before the bright moon washes out the fainter stars, take a look for the Andromeda galaxy. Unless you have significant light pollution, you should be able to see it high in ...

The next clear evening, before the bright moon washes out the fainter stars, take a look for the Andromeda galaxy. Unless you have significant light pollution, you should be able to see it high in ...

Our neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, M31, is approximately 2.54 million light-years from here. That is how long it took for the collective light of the galaxy’s billions of stars to reach our eyes.

Located at a distance of 2.5 million light-years, the Andromeda Galaxy is readily visible to the unaided eye on dark, clear nights. Here's where you should look this week.