Did you know that you can see the closest spiral galaxy next to our own in the sky? While binoculars and telescopes will offer much better views, it’s still possible to see it with your naked eye if ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five years after my first attempt to capture the Andromeda Galaxy surrounded by faint hydrogen alpha (Ha) clouds taken with a DSLR ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-up view of a prodigious number of stars in the Andromeda galaxy. The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit back on a lawn chair. Your neighbors may think you’ve cracked up sitting out ...

Discover the secrets of SDSO 1, a 400,000-year-old ghost planetary nebula near Andromeda, revealing new insights into stellar ...

This week, with the bright moon having left our evening sky, you will have a chance to see the most distant object that can be glimpsed with the unaided eye: the Andromeda Galaxy. The remarkable ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger ...

An explosive, green comet racing toward Earth is currently zooming past the nearby Andromeda galaxy in the night sky, setting the stage for some stunning photographs. You can also watch the comet fly ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, shown here with two of its satellite or companion galaxies, is one of few objects in the night sky visible with the unaided eye that's outside our own Milky Way Galaxy. And I do ...

This is M31, the spiral galaxy in Andromeda, with its two companion elliptical galaxies, the very small M32 below, and larger M110 above. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty ...

Exciting new simulations reveal that our Milky Way could gracefully dodge a direct encounter with Andromeda. What once seemed ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe one of the most famous deep-sky objects, the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31). Named for its location in the constellation Andromeda ...