The Andromeda galaxy, our cosmic neighbor, is far more turbulent than previously thought. A new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope has mapped the chaotic history of Andromeda’s dwarf galaxy system, ...

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda galaxy. The data suggests Andromeda had a chaotic past unlike ...

Meet Andromeda XXXV Dwarf galaxies themselves are nothing new to scientists. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is orbited by ...

A way of using variable stars—stars that changed their light output in a repeating cycle—allowed astronomers to determine distances to star groups ... called the Andromeda Nebula (after ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31 ... appear to have all shut off their star formation some 10 billion years ago — a ...

"Star formation really continued to much ... galaxies in the past 10 billion years at least, whereas the Andromeda galaxy shows signs of having experienced a significant merger with another ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. For decades, capturing detailed images of galaxies beyond the Milky Way has felt like ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

This Hubble image of a crowded star field in the disk of the Andromeda galaxy shows that stars of different ages can be distinguished from one another on basis of temperature (as indicated by ...

Photographing Andromeda was a monumental challenge due to its vast size, far exceeding the galaxies Hubble usually observes. The full mosaic was completed across two Hubble programs, requiring ...

"It was actually a total surprise to find the satellites in that configuration and we still don’t fully understand why they appear that way." Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the ...