That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. Have you ever seen the Andromeda galaxy? Go outside after dark this month and look high up in the northeast sky and you’ll find the W-shaped ...

In the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, astronomers can observe stars one by one. But for ...

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 ...

On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

From the Andromeda Galaxy to the Magellanic clouds, check out these 7 vibrant images of galaxies nearest to the Milky Way ...

(A light-year is the distance across space traveled by ... takes 433 years to reach your eyes. Galaxy-light from the Andromeda galaxy (M31) has taken 2.5 million light-years to reach your eyes.

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.

The distance from the Milky Way to Andromeda, the next nearest spiral galaxy, is approximately 2.5 million light years. The closest known galaxy to Earth is the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy ...

such as the Andromeda Galaxy, astronomers can observe stars one by one. But for galaxies billions of light-years away, the stars appear blended together due to the distance. "To us, galaxies that ...