Go outside after dark this month and look high up in the northeast sky and you’ll find the W-shaped constellation ... years away—Andromeda is home to at least a trillion stars.

The team analyzed 42 novae, most of which are found near the center of the Andromeda Galaxy, a region full of bright galactic light that usually hides these stars. Using special techniques to ...

If the sky is dark and the moon is not too bright, and if you know exactly where to look, you can just barely see the ...

A way of using variable stars—stars that changed their ... observers (including William Herschel) called the Andromeda Nebula (after the constellation in which it was located).

The ancient myth of Andromeda's constellation. In this film, Poseidon sends his divine punishment to the surface of Ethiopia to destroy the kingdom. As a last ditch effort, Cepheus has to ...

The gods were pleased and elevated all the characters to the heavens as stars but as one final slap on the wrist, Cassiopeia was placed in the sky in such a way that she would appear upside down for ...

As a constellation ... or a small telescope, but the Andromeda galaxy’s significance comes from its half a trillion stars and its distance. Just 2.5 million light-years away, this spiral ...