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It took a decade for NASA to piece together this 416,592,960 pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy and the key takeaway? 'Andromeda's a train wreck'“We can tell it’s got this big central bulge of older stars and a star-forming disk that’s not as active as you might expect given the galaxy’s mass.” So, Andromeda appears to be frozen ...
"We can tell it's got this big central bulge of older stars and a star-forming disk that's not as active as you might expect given the galaxy's mass." Astronomers refer to the Andromeda Galaxy as M31 ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...
Hubble observations of the galaxy’s age, mass of stars and heavy-element abundance ... our latest southern half observations," said Chen. "Andromeda's a train wreck — it looks like it has ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31 or M31 ... Hubble can only detect stars that are brighter than our Sun, and many low-mass stars fall below its sensitivity threshold.
Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars. When you purchase ...
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and ...
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