NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars" that can be seen with the naked eye if weather conditions are just right. About 100 years after astronomer Edwin ...
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Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...
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 ...
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See the Andromeda Galaxy and Perseus Double Cluster with the naked eye on November 26—here's how
S targazers are in luck this Wednesday, November 26, as two major cosmic sights will be visible to the unaided eye. The ...
Dots show locations of stars in the spectroscopic survey superimposed on an image of the Andromeda galaxy (M31). Dots are color coded according to their velocity relative to the Milky Way, as measured ...
On November 30, the near-Earth asteroid Eros will pass within 2 degrees of the Andromeda Galaxy's core, offering a rare ...
Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...
"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies, drifting a few million light years from one another like lily pads floating on the surface of a pond." — Timothy Ferris in Seeing in the Dark A ...
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