Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, yet every view of it is ancient. The light reaching Earth tonight began crossing intergalactic space about 2.5 million years ago. That journey ...

From the Andromeda Nebula, to My HomeWhen I was a child, my father's words always felt a little distant.My father loved science fiction.I think he sublimated the various frustrations of daily life ...

"Beyond the Milky Way lie billions of other galaxies, drifting a few million light years from one another like lily pads floating on the surface of a pond." — Timothy Ferris in Seeing in the Dark A ...

On Oct. 4, 1923, Edwin Hubble took a photographic plate of the Andromeda Nebula (as it was known then) using the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson. The next night, Oct. 5th, he took another ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

In the last 'Sui's Constellation Guide,' we met Cassiopeia. The words of the queen who boasted of her beauty would eventually invite the wrath of the gods. But— the one who ended up paying the price ...

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 ...

Your people have fled the tyrannical control of UNITY, escaping to the Andromeda galaxy. Using the debris of a precursor civilization, and under constant threat from both raiders and other settlers, ...

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 ...