The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.
The Hubble Space Telescope has generated the most comprehensive survey yet of the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest galactic neighbor to the Milky Way. The new mosaic of about 2.5 billion pixels yields ...
Video tour of Hubble’s panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy. Credit ... and Optical Photometry of over 90 Million Stars in M31, The Astrophysical Journal (2025). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357 ...
The result is therefore called “Hubble M31 PHAT+PHAST Mosaic”, M31 being the name of the Andromeda Galaxy in the central Messier catalog. A version with a resolution of 42,208×9870 pixels is ...
Despite its nearness, photographing the entire Andromeda Galaxy is no easy ... required more than 1,000 Hubble orbits to produce the 2.5-billion-pixel image of M31. This new data could help ...
This image, captured by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), showcases the expansive Andromeda Galaxy, also referred to as Messier 31 or M31. This image of M31, our nearest major ...