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

Andromeda would also gradually become a dominant, imposing feature in our night sky, as NASA has depicted in visualizations.

Photographing Andromeda was a Herculean task because the galaxy is a much bigger target on the sky than the galaxies Hubble routinely observes, which are often billions of light-years away.

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Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way’s closest major galactic neighbor, and it has broken the record for the ...

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The newfound galaxy, Andromeda XXXV, is seen within the white ellipse. | Credit: CFHT/MegaCam/PAndAS (Principal investigator: Alan McConnachie; Image processing: Marcos Arias) Astronomers have ...

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 ...

Our closest major galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy. At 2.5 million light years away ... A rare 'Blood Moon' January's full 'Wolf Moon' and February's 'Snow Moon' both illuminated the night sky, but ...

One of the great places to look for dwarf galaxies is the halo of the Andromeda galaxy (also known as Messier 31, or M31 for short), due to its relative proximity. UNIONS is so far the deepest ...