{"id":241719,"date":"2026-07-28T20:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/hubble-shows-star-formation-in-andromeda-galaxy-is-winding-down"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:12:59","slug":"hubble-shows-star-formation-in-andromeda-galaxy-is-winding-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/hubble-shows-star-formation-in-andromeda-galaxy-is-winding-down","title":{"rendered":"Hubble shows star formation in Andromeda galaxy is winding down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-shows-star-formation-in-andromeda-galaxy-is-winding-down3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study using data from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope finds that star formation in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has undergone a 500-million-year decline, with an even steeper drop in the last 40 million years. Andromeda, a spiral galaxy comparable in size to our Milky Way, is close enough to be seen with the unaided eye from areas with dark skies. Located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth\u2014practically our cosmic backyard\u2014Andromeda offers an opportunity for astronomers to examine its stellar populations in detail, leading to a better understanding of the past of galaxies like our own.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/ae6db9\" target=\"_blank\">results<\/a> were published Monday in The Astrophysical Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study using data from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope finds that star formation in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has undergone a 500-million-year decline, with an even steeper drop in the last 40 million years. Andromeda, a spiral galaxy comparable in size to our Milky Way, is close enough to be seen with the unaided [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}