Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. You might wonder what would happen if our disk-shaped spiral galaxy were to one day collide with Andromeda, which is over twice the size of the Milky Way.
The Andromeda galaxy lies just beyond (...OK, about 2.5 million light-years beyond) our galaxy, the Milky Way. These galaxies are more than just neighbors: They're gravitationally bound. And for the ...
The supermassive black holes at the centers of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are doomed to engulf each other in an ill-fated cosmological dance. Astronomers have long known that Andromeda is on ...
Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...
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See the Andromeda Galaxy and Perseus Double Cluster with the naked eye on November 26—here's how
S targazers are in luck this Wednesday, November 26, as two major cosmic sights will be visible to the unaided eye. The ...
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 ...
A group of astronomers has discovered the smallest, dimmest satellite galaxy bordering the Milky Way’s nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. The itsy-bitsy satellite galaxy is named ...
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