A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

This is a wide-angle view ... The nearest galaxy of comparable mass to the Milky Way beyond Andromeda is M81, at nearly 12 million light-years. This bird's-eye view of Andromeda's satellite ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda galaxy ... Essentially a wide-angle version of Hubble (with the same ...

This interior view of the Milky Way ... spiral galaxy looks like from the side, since we're only able to look at it (and pretty much every other distant thing in outer space) from one angle.

What they found revealed a population of dwarf galaxies that are quite unlike the ones circling the Milky Way ... bird's eye view of the known dwarf galaxies orbiting the large Andromeda galaxy.

An curved arrow pointing right. In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other ...

Situated approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth, the Andromeda Galaxy is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, belonging to the Local Group cluster. It is a barred spiral galaxy ...

The nearby galaxy Andromeda is speeding towards us at 250,000 mph. It has a long way to travel - about 2.5 million light-years - but it's likely to crash into the Milky Way in about 4 billion years.

Located 2.5 million light-years from Earth, this galaxy is one among the closest to the Milky Way. The data collected by Hubble covers the entire disk of Andromeda, revealing a complete view of ...

This encounter, and the fact that Andromeda is as much as twice as massive as our Milky Way, could explain its plentiful and diverse dwarf galaxy population. This animation begins with a view of ...