What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan Mitchell Maricopa, Arizona Your excellent question affords us the opportunity to ...

Andromeda Galaxy—The nearest large spiral galaxy ... Asteroid belt—The region of the solar system where most of the asteroids orbit. It lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

"Even though our galaxy, as well as the Andromeda galaxy, has 100 billion stars in it, they're very far apart." Not only will the solar system survive, but Earth will see a spectacular show as the ...

Sometimes metres and kilometres are used to measure objects and distances in space, especially if they are small or within our solar ... Way to Andromeda, the next nearest spiral galaxy, is ...

Researchers led by astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered the smallest and dimmest galaxy to date that's orbiting the Andromeda system ... is about 20,000 solar masses and ...

The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd ... Just as we have found that Earth is not the center of the solar system, and the Sun is just another star in the ...

This type of galaxy was only discoverable around one system, the Milky Way, in the past," Bell said. "Now we're able to look at one around Andromeda ... is about 20,000 solar masses and yet ...