The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from over a decade ... imaging capabilities resolve stars brighter than our Sun, resembling grains of sand on a beach.

Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda. Though galaxy ... "In fact, if you ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way’s closest major galactic neighbor, and it has broken the record for the ...

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way at ... if it weren't for the fact that the Sun will likely swallow Earth in about five billion years. The picture below is what ...

The inexorable tug of gravity that enabled the formation of the Milky Way has also put us on a collision course with our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda ... luminosity of our sun will have rendered ...