The galaxy's vast spiral arms span approximately 2,60,000 light-years, hosting over a trillion stars orbiting a supermassive ...

October is an excellent time to observe the Andromeda spiral galaxy as it passes high overhead in the Autumn night sky.

The galaxy, also known as M31, can be seen with the naked eye but appears more spectacular from areas with minimal light pollution.

October 2025 offers ideal conditions to observe the Andromeda Galaxy. Learn how to locate it, viewing tips and capture ...

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 back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

Did you know that you can see the closest spiral galaxy next to our own in the sky? While binoculars and telescopes will offer much better views, it’s still possible to see it with your naked eye if ...

Look for the three stars that make up the distinctive formation of Orion's Belt — Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka — shining ...

Andromeda (M31), the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, is slated to collide with our galaxy in several billion years, a process expected to be gradual rather than abrupt. Historical observations ...

FARGO — Go outside on a clear night in early winter and look up. Everything you can see — all the stars, the planets, the shooting stars, the northern lights — is contained within the Milky Way galaxy ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

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 ...

For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become ...