The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

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 ...

Along with a number of neighbouring galaxies — including our closest galactic neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy — it forms what ...

1. Andromeda Galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy at 2.5 million light-years, it’s massive, visible to the naked eye, and heading toward the Milky Way. 2. Triangulum Galaxy is a small ...

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 ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the researchers.

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 ...