Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

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 Triangulum galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud) taken into account, the researchers found the chances of a Milky Way-Andromeda collision were reduced to a coin flip. And if the merger does ...

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 ...

Messier 31 is located 2.5 million light-years away from Earth and was a much bigger target in the sky than the galaxies ...

Though the Milky Way and Andromeda formed presumably around ... "This was probably due to a collision with another galaxy in the neighborhood." A possible culprit is the compact satellite galaxy ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals stunning details about the Andromeda galaxy, shedding light on its complex evolution, ...

It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, but containing many more stars. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our own. (We do have closer neighbor galaxies ...

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 ...

Though the Milky Way and Andromeda formed presumably around ... "This was probably due to a collision with another galaxy in the neighborhood." A possible culprit is the compact satellite galaxy ...