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 ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

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 ...

The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to ours, the Milky Way. On moonless nights it’s visible to the naked eye, but it takes a powerful space telescope to see that Andromeda isn’t as alone ...

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 inexorable tug of gravity that enabled the formation of the Milky Way has also put us on a collision course with our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda. Recent observations confirm that Andromeda ...

It is a panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light ... For Hubble's pinpoint view, that's a lot of celestial real estate to cover. This stunning, colorful ...

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 ...

Four of these novae were observed in real-time a... The James Webb Space ... Recent research has cast doubt on the certainty of the Milky Way-Andromeda galaxy collision, suggesting the event ...