The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night ... to Andromeda. Have you ever seen the Andromeda galaxy? Go outside after dark this month and look high up in the northeast sky ...

It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night as a ... Photographing Andromeda was a Herculean task because the galaxy is a much bigger target on the sky than the galaxies Hubble ...

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 ...

Earth itself will survive, but when this galactic war happens, Earth's night sky will look like nothing ... Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way at a speed of 250,000 ...

"It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand." Astronomers announced last week that they had completed a decade-long, meticulous effort to assemble a full portrait of ...

Photographing Andromeda - located 2.5 million light-years away - was a Herculean task because the galaxy is a much bigger target in the sky than the ... very clear autumn night as a faint cigar ...

which are among the brightest stars in the night sky, according to the Center for Astrophysics. In the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, astronomers can observe stars ...