The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner.

Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they find it to be about 2 1/2 million light years away. It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy ...

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 ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd ... named after the constellation in which we see it. The Virgo Cluster contains about a thousand galaxies, and spans ...

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ultraviolet light." ...

April is also a good month for galaxy-watching with the help of a telescope, including the Andromeda Galaxy ... of light appear to originate from the constellation Lyra, the harp.

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations reveals that this degree of asymmetry is ...