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

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 ...

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, the Milky Way’s mass ... are hard to see—which is why you ...

At about 2.5 million light-years away, Andromeda is the closest major galaxy to our own, and getting closer; Andromeda and the Milky Way are predicted to collide and merge in about 5 billion years ...

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 ...

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy ... colliding with its neighbor Andromeda. However, a new analysis of a more distant galaxy is hinting at another dramatic ...

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 nearest galaxy of comparable mass to the Milky Way beyond Andromeda is M81, at nearly 12 million light-years. This bird's ...

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 ...