How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

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 ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way at a speed of 250,000 mph - fast enough to circle the world in just six minutes. And it's scheduled to collide, head-on, with the ...

The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd entry ... are attempting to measure millions of galaxies and map their distribution in space. We are only beginning ...

The nearby galaxy Andromeda is speeding towards us at 250,000 mph. It has a long way to travel - about 2.5 million light-years - but it's likely to crash into the Milky Way in about 4 billion years.

Only 100 years ago, in fact, when Edwin Hubble found a type of star known as Cepheid variables within Andromeda, and used ...

The galaxy in question is the famous Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, which is the most distant object you can see with your naked eyes. If you’ve got a pair of binoculars you’ll get a ...

The rosy red structures of a nearby galaxy glow brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Andromeda Galaxy ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe one of the most famous deep-sky objects, the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31). Named for its location in the constellation ...