Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership ...
December means the winter solstice is coming, it arrives on Dec. 21, and we are in for a couple of very cold and snowy months in Wyoming. Even though it’s ...
The high-resolution image of the Andromeda Galaxy taken by China's Wide Field Survey Telescope. [Photo/CCTV News] Utilizing the spectrum data gathered by the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber ...
The Andromeda galaxy, our closest spiral neighbor to the Milky Way, becomes prominently visible in the night sky during October 2025, making it an ideal month for stargazers to observe this stunning ...
Just how far can we see on a clear, dark night? If you’re a regular reader of this column, you know that the stars overhead lie many trillions of miles away, but these make up only a tiny fraction of ...
Historically, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) was a subject of extensive debate, initially considered a "nebulous smear" and later central to the "island universe" hypothesis proposing its status as an ...
Get ready to witness our cosmic neighbor like never before! :milky_way: Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher spent 38 hours capturing an unbelievably detailed image of the Andromeda Galaxy, located 2.5 ...
When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op. Milky Way season, when the galaxy's bright ...
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing ...
Cepheid stars have predictable brightness changes linked to their periods. This period-brightness relationship lets astronomers calculate a Cepheid's distance. Hubble found a Cepheid in the Andromeda ...