Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

China's Wide Field Survey Telescope has captured an amazing view of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

Ladi Svoboda told Snopes that the photo was "real but artistically interpreted," while noting that similar shots were ...

A minority view, however, held that the Milky Way ... Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they find it to be about 2 1/2 million light ...

Take a good, hard look at the Milky Way Galaxy in the image above - eventually, this view will be completely ... Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way at a speed of ...

Boing Boing’s Maggie Koerth-Baker made a great comparison today between the actual Andromeda Galaxy (which is 2.5 million years away from Earth), and the Andromeda Galaxy representation that ships as ...

The Andromeda galaxy's satellite galaxies exhibit a highly asymmetrical distribution, with over 80% concentrated on one side, challenging the standard cosmological model.

Then, they pieced together a record of the X-ray light produced by a supermassive black hole in the Andromeda galaxy called M31 star or M31*. Their research provides insight into the unique ...

Five years after my first attempt to capture the Andromeda Galaxy surrounded by faint hydrogen ... I decided to present my final view of M31 in a little different way, framing with a rotation ...

Cosmological simulations say that such an alignment should not happen, with a probability of less than 0.3%. Our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, or M31) appears to sport a lopsided ...