Around 50 million years ago, a blue dwarf galaxy shot through the center of an enormous galaxy more than twice the size of ...

Andromeda is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way ... Hubble spotted the hallmarks of a past collision: the presence of a large stellar population, coherent streams of stars, etc. Open the ...

Follow BI Video: On Facebook More from Science 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 ...

Video of the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. The camera pans along the Andromeda Galaxy's vast disk which is over 200,000 light-years across. (Credit: ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Andromeda's total population is estimated to be 1 trillion stars, with many less massive stars falling below Hubble's sensitivity limit. Video ... due to a collision with another galaxy in the ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... then the Milky Way and Andromeda, thought to be on a collision course in about four billion ...

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing ... much affected by this collision... is that galaxies are mostly empty space," said Roeland van der Marel in a ScienceTV video. Marel is a scientist ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away ...

potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars" that can be seen with the naked eye if weather conditions are ...