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Astronomers taking a close look at our nearest neighbor galaxy have made a highly unusual and model-challenging discovery; ...
Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured a colorful portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Dark Sky Alqueva Observatory in ...
The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of them orbit, and now this lopsidedness. It just goes to show that sometimes it ...
Ladi Svoboda told Snopes that the photo was "real but artistically interpreted," while noting that similar shots were ...
The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...
The dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our own, have an extremely strange distribution that's ...
A recent study published in Nature Astronomy has revealed that the dwarf galaxies orbiting around Andromeda, our neighboring ...
Every big galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, but scientists are still trying to fully understand how these ...
The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...
Our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, or M31) appears to sport a lopsided arrangement of satellite galaxies that defy scientific models, stumping astronomers who are also trying to figure ...