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 ...

Miguel Claro, an astrophotographer, spent five years capturing a stunning image of the Andromeda Galaxy from Portugal's Dark ...

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.

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way at ... After six billion years of cosmic carnage, Earth's night sky would be ablaze with the elliptical galaxy's bright, new core ...

Boing Boing’s Maggie Koerth-Baker made a great comparison today between the actual Andromeda Galaxy (which is 2.5 million years away ... GIF shows a comparison between what’s actually in the sky and ...

It is a panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away. It took over 10 years to make this vast and colorful portrait of the galaxy, requiring over 600 ...

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 ...

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 ...