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 ...

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full moon. What backyard observers ...

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

In a study published in The Astrophysics Journal, a Michigan State University researcher used the NASA Chandra X-Ray ...

Unlike the distinctive spiral arms curved around the center of our own galaxy, Andromeda’s core is circled by multiple rings of dust. To arrive at their conclusions, the astronomers first ...

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 other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd ... They each orbit around their common center of mass. Because the density of galaxies is high within clusters, galaxy ...

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 ...