Search This Blog

Showing posts with label andromeda galaxy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label andromeda galaxy. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Four Unusual Views of the Andromeda Galaxy | ESA/Hubble

Media_httpwwwspacetel_ncxzu

The Andromeda Galaxy is revealed in unprecedented detail in four archive observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They show stars and structure in the galaxy’s disc, the halo of stars that surrounds it, and a stream of stars left by a companion galaxy as it was torn apart and pulled in by the galaxy’s gravitational forces.