In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision! Don’t worry, though – the distances between stars are vast, so we won’t feel a thing.

The work has revealed that Andromeda is a lot more chaotic than expected. Similar to what recently retired Gaia did for the ...

Beneath that is a selection of intriguing sights within the mosaic, labeled A through E: A: Star clusters in Andromeda, foreground stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and two background galaxies far ...

In addition, this representative map of the line-of-sight velocities ... and what effect they have had on the galaxy. Andromeda clearly has had a more active merger history than the Milky Way, and we ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided unprecedented details about the Andromeda galaxy's history and characteristics.

The Andromeda ... from the Milky Way. In the latest study, Hubble's sharp imaging uncovered more than 200 million stars in Andromeda. This marks the most detailed survey of the galaxy, which ...

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way. And it is getting closer, as the two will merge in several billion years. It has been an object of study for centuries, but we have never ...

ESA said: "But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way: the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31)." The galaxy can be seen with the naked eye on ...