Our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, or M31) appears to sport a lopsided arrangement of satellite galaxies that defy ...

At about 2.5 million light-years away, Andromeda is the closest major galaxy to our own, and getting closer; Andromeda and the Milky Way are predicted ... comprehensive 3D map of our galactic ...

That’s a whole lot of data, and it’s already being used to create some stunning visualizations of what the Milky Way looks ... at our home galaxy. Along with that sky map, the ESA also ...

Andromeda, also known as M31, is the spiral galaxy closest to the Milky Way and, like our galaxy, is surrounded by a group of smaller dwarf galaxies that orbit around it. What has surprised scientists ...

Our Milky Way Galaxy is one of three large galaxies in the Local Group of Galaxies. The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy ... millions of galaxies and map their distribution in ...

The Milky Way, one of astronomy’s most dazzling phenomena, is our home galaxy with a disk of stars spanning more than 100,000 light years.

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way. Miguel Claro is a professional photographer ...

A mysterious cluster of 60 stars may be just another Milky Way star cluster, or it may be one of the smallest galaxies ever ...

Svoboda said this editing creates what astrophotographers call a "nightscape," and that combining images in this way is a "widely ... appear to feature the Andromeda galaxy and a few of its ...

Five years after my first attempt to capture the Andromeda Galaxy surrounded by ... visible in the foreground belong to our own Milky Way galaxy, as do the several distinct colorful stars which ...