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The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...
Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...
A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor.
Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th ...
Take a deep breath: the universe is not just big it’s mind-bogglingly, practically scandalously huge. And it’s growing. A ...
It wouldn’t be the last time Hubble would shift the paradigm. In 1929, he reported that all but a few galaxies are moving away from us, with more-distant galaxies moving faster than nearby ones. The ...
Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...
A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. Globular ...
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How weird is the Milky Way?
By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...
This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is ...