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.

The result is an impressive panorama, revealing approximately 200 million stars and extending six times the apparent diameter of the full Moon in the night sky.

In addition to telling the turbulent history of the Andromeda Galaxy, the mosaic will now allow astronomers to better understand our similarly spiraled Milky Way. Without Andromeda as a proxy for ...

This mosaic took over 10 years to create ... A century ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called "spiral nebula" was approximately 2.5 million light years away from ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

The mosaic image is made up of at least 2.5 billion ... which resembles the stripped-down core of a once-spiral galaxy that may have interacted with Andromeda in the past. Computer simulations ...

Assembled from a total of 7,398 exposures taken over 411 individual pointings of the telescope, this image of our nearest major galactic neighbor, M31, is the largest Hubble mosaic to date.

The mosaic contains roughly 2.5 billion individual ... "Without Andromeda as a proxy for spiral galaxies in the universe at large, astronomers would know much less about the structure and ...