(Arias has since graduated and is pursuing a post-baccalaureate research position.) Their research was published in The ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. For decades, capturing detailed images of galaxies beyond the Milky Way has felt like ...

"It was actually a total surprise to find the satellites in that configuration and we still don’t fully understand why they appear that way." Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the ...

This is a wide-angle view of the distribution of known satellite galaxies orbiting the large Andromeda galaxy (M31), located 2.5 million light-years away. The Hubble Space Telescope was used to ...

Astronomers have discovered Andromeda XXXV, the smallest and faintest known galaxy, located 3 million light-years away. It challenges existing models of galaxy formation, as similar small galaxies ...

Take a good, hard look at the Milky Way Galaxy in the image above - eventually, this view will be completely destroyed by a collision of galactic proportions. Earth itself will survive, but when ...

A Hubble Space Telescope study takes a close look at the dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda. Credit: NASA / ESA / J. Dalcanton / B.F. Williams / L.C. Johnson / PHAT team / R. Gendler Surrounding ...

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...