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

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

Andromeda would also gradually become ... may look like the view depicted below: the bright center of an enormous elliptical galaxy. These changes in the sky, of course, wouldn't be rapid.

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'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 ...

The center of mass ends up lying inside the larger ... which includes the Milky Way; the Andromeda galaxy; a smaller spiral galaxy called Triangulum; and several dwarf galaxies, including 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 ...

But new research at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) shows that the satellite galaxies of the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy (M31) have surprising and thus far unexplained ...