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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 ...
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Mass Effect: Andromeda – Why You Should Give It a Second Chance
Andromeda has come a long way since its launch, and its improved gameplay and deep connections to the franchise make it worth ...
This massive ‘bouquet’ is actually where stars have been born for 25 million years
A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...
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Hubble Space Telescope reveals richest view of Andromeda galaxy to date (image)
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 ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
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After 10 years and 1,000 orbits, Hubble's mosaic reveals 200 million stars in Andromeda
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.
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Science Museum of Virginia’s ‘The Dome’ to showcase NASA’s new Andromeda Galaxy mosaic
Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...
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'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create
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 ...
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'Enticing empire of stars:' See Andromeda galaxy in newly released NASA images
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 ...