In about 4.5 billion years, the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way, resulting in a spectacular cosmic collision! Don’t worry, though – the distances between stars are vast ...

In a study published today by The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a research team led by Yale University’s Imad Pasha ...

A Galactic 'Train Wreck' Though the Milky Way and Andromeda formed presumably ... "This was probably due to a collision with another galaxy in the neighborhood." A possible culprit is the compact ...

Surprising discovery: NASA reveals a planet is disintegrating in an unprecedented way ... of the collision. In the sky we would see how Andromeda becomes huge, overlaps with the Milky Way and ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way — the Andromeda Galaxy. It can be seen with the naked eye on clear autumn nights as a faint oval ...

Though the Milky Way and Andromeda formed presumably around ... "This was probably due to a collision with another galaxy in the neighborhood." A possible culprit is the compact satellite galaxy ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

The Andromeda galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way. The observations recorded ... “This was probably due to a collision with another galaxy in the neighborhood.” ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and ...