Hubble reveals a markedly different ecosystem from the smaller number of satellite galaxies that circle our Milky Way. This ...

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 ...

Caption This is the largest photomosaic ever made by the Hubble Space Telescope. The target is the vast Andromeda galaxy that is only 2.5 million light-years from Earth, making it the nearest ...

Hubble had been in space for less than two ... Producing a Hyper-Detailed Look at the Andromeda Galaxy (2025) The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest major galaxy to our own Milky Way, making it ...

A large fraction of M31's dwarf satellites are confined to a plane around the Andromeda Galaxy, as confirmed earlier in 2025 by the Hubble Space Telescope, and a similar satellite plane exists ...

Using variable stars as distance markers and the giant telescope on Mount Wilson, Edwin Hubble (then a young ... have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they ...

Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with ... systems outside and independent of our galaxy. It was the first evidence of galaxies outside our own, and Hubble soon went on to discover about 23 more ...

Hubble also snapped the first space-based images of an asteroid breaking, the first confirmation that the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with our Milky Way Galaxy, and many more famous firsts.

"This makes conditions in the galaxy similar to what existed in the early universe." SEE ALSO: Hubble sees mini galaxies surrounding Andromeda are pretty wild The Hubble Space Telescope ...

Cosmological simulations say that such an alignment should not happen, with a probability of less than 0.3%. Our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, or M31) appears to sport a lopsided ...

This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away.