Astronomers have identified an extraordinary cosmic pattern in our celestial neighborhood: a stream of dwarf galaxies ...

In 1912, M31’s spectra captured by American astronomer ... NASA, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and IRAM radio telescopes (top image). Future observations with the James Webb Space ...

However, Fesen tells Astronomy that since then, “I have started to think it less likely to be a feature of M31, but, instead, a Milky Way nebula much closer. But who knows.” To settle the ...

Like how the Earth keeps the Moon bound on a gravitational tether, our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy (M31), is surrounded ... in the journal Nature Astronomy: almost all the ...

In conjunction with M31’s plane of satellites ... The study is published in Nature Astronomy.

They embrace them as laboratories for physics and astronomy research ... a supermassive black hole in the Andromeda galaxy called M31 star or M31*. Their research provides insight into the ...

The first decades of the twentieth century, among the most productive in the history of astronomy ... and is thus also called M31 by astronomers. By the 1920's, M31 was clearly understood to ...

A good monocular or binocular for astronomy will have more or less the ... and the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). If your priority is portability, you may be tempted to compare any bulky pair of ...

Note the difference in the way the M31 photos were taken ... have a good time out on the deck," Griffin said. The Midlands Astronomy Club meets monthly at the Owens Field airport in Columbia ...