Stars race around a black hole at the center of the Andromeda galaxy so fast that they could go the distance from Earth to the moon in six minutes. The finding, announced today, solves a mystery over ...

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After a decade of data, the Hubble Space Telescope gave us the clearest view ever of our closest galactic neighbor. What it revealed was stunning: 200 million stars, ancient collisions, and signs of a ...

Someday, the Andromeda Galaxy will merge with our Milky Way – and it won’t be the first time Andromeda has swallowed up another galaxy and kept the stars for itself. The nearby Andromeda Galaxy, like ...

NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars" that can be seen with the naked eye if weather conditions are just right. About 100 years after astronomer Edwin ...

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Dots show locations of stars in the spectroscopic survey superimposed on an image of the Andromeda galaxy (M31). Dots are color coded according to their velocity relative to the Milky Way, as measured ...

The large galaxies present in the current Universe weren't always so big. Evidence indicates that they were built up over time, largely by collisions with other galaxies. These collisions have left ...

image: The Andromeda Galaxy is our nearest large galactic neighbor, containing several hundred billion stars. Combined, these images show all stages of the stellar life cycle. The infrared image from ...

A pair of space telescopes is giving astronomers an unprecedented view of stellar birth and death in the Andromeda Galaxy, located about 2.5 million light-years away. The combined image was made using ...