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

This summer, I upgraded my small wide-angle view telescope in order to better track deep space objects and capture ...

A Hubble Space Telescope study takes a close look at the dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda. Surrounding the Andromeda galaxy, three dozen tiny galaxies aren't behaving the way scientists expected.

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

Want to see the Andromeda Galaxy? Read on to learn how you can spot it and what are the ways to do so for you.

Over the course of human history, perhaps no single object in the night sky has drawn more attention than the Andromeda ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope. "Every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole, but the exact nature ...

This is a wide-angle view of the distribution of known satellite galaxies orbiting the large Andromeda galaxy (M31), located 2.5 million light-years away. The Hubble Space Telescope was used to study ...

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 ...

A Hubble Space Telescope study takes a close look at the dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda. Credit: NASA / ESA / J. Dalcanton / B.F. Williams / L.C. Johnson / PHAT team / R. Gendler Surrounding the ...