Andromeda is also a flattened spiral like the Milky Way, but it's twice as large — 220,000 light-years across versus 105,000 for the Milky Way — and crammed with a trillion suns. Can you even begin to ...
Most of the universe is slipping away from the Milky Way, carried outward as space itself expands. Yet one giant neighbor is bucking the trend, racing straight at us while almost every other major ...
A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...
Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...
The Andromeda galaxy's family of satellite galaxies point towards the Milky Way, and nobody knows why.
Five years after my first attempt to capture the Andromeda Galaxy surrounded by faint hydrogen alpha (Ha) clouds taken with a DSLR camera back in 2020, and inspired by the recent discovery by ...
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Inverclyde astronomy expert Stephen McAllister explains how he went about capturing the Andromeda galaxy on camera.
Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...
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It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...
A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...