As the crisp autumn air rolls in, October presents a prime opportunity for stargazers to witness the beauty of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Just as the Milky Way’s closest neighbor climbs high above ...
Inverclyde astronomy expert Stephen McAllister explains how he went about capturing the Andromeda galaxy on camera.
Astronomers have long known that the Andromeda galaxy, aka Messier 31, a swirling city-state of a trillion stars — plus all the accouterments of gas, dust, dark matter and black holes — is rumbling ...
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A galaxy 2.5 million light-years away can be seen in Massachusetts. The best times to see the Andromeda Galaxy might be in late September and early October. This is when the Andromeda galaxy can be ...
New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed surprising activity inside the Andromeda galaxy. The data ...
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 ...
It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...
Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon Marius. ...
As the sun sets, the Summer Triangle is straight overhead. To the north, the Big Dipper dominates as always, its cup sitting nearly parallel to the horizon late in the evening. Malan is astronomy ...
A star in the Andromeda Galaxy has inexplicably vanished, leaving behind a puzzling red light source that is baffling astronomers.