Others were indistinct splotches, more likely to be the gas and dust that supplies the raw material for new stars and planets ... the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they ...

Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda. Though galaxy ... But what would happen to the stars and planets of the Milky Way? And what would be ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner.

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way ... dragging Earth and the other planets with it. But even though the Milky Way and Andromeda each have 100 billion stars, it's ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation ... planar structure, reminiscent of planets orbiting the Sun. The coexistence of such a plane of satellite galaxies and a lopsided satellite ...