July 9 is expected to be one of the shortest days in history, but you won’t notice a difference. The Earth has been moving ...

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

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.

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 ...

A new feature, found near the Andromeda Galaxy in early 2023, ... Now in its 15th year, the competition features over 100 photographs of shimmering skies, the brilliant Moon, and vibrant stars.

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

That faint fuzzy patch in the constellation Andromeda is a galaxy in its own right: a giant star-city even larger than the Milky Way, lying 2.5 million light years away.

Save $100 on this 5-inch telescope and enjoy views of Saturn's rings, the belts of Jupiter and bright deep space objects like ...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) makes for a great late summer target, as a naked-eye object or with binoculars or a telescope. It’s the closest major galaxy to us at 2.5 million light-years.

This week, with the bright moon having left our evening sky, you will have a chance to see the most distant object that can be glimpsed with the unaided eye: the Andromeda Galaxy.

Someday, the Andromeda Galaxy will merge with our Milky Way – and it won’t be the first time Andromeda has swallowed up another galaxy and kept the stars for itself. The nearby Andromeda ...

Hubble can only detect stars brighter than our Sun, enabling the telescope to capture just a fraction of Andromeda’s estimated total population of 1 trillion stars. The galaxy can be seen with the ...