The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky ... "That's because we are embedded inside the Milky Way. This is like trying to understand the layout of New York City by standing in the ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

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 ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

Until now, the closest known supermassive black hole from beyond the Milky Way was the one inside the Andromeda galaxy, about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. It is the nearest major galaxy to ...

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way at a speed of 250,000 mph - fast enough to circle the world in just six minutes. And it's scheduled to collide, head-on, with the ...

The Earth is in a galaxy called the Milky Way, which is in the Local Group in the Virgo Supercluster. The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a ...

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 ...