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Andromeda Galaxy: Facts about our closest galactic neighbor
By Nola Taylor Tillman, Rebecca Sohn last updated
Reference The Andromeda galaxy is the most distant object in the sky that you can see with your unaided eye. It's also on a collision course with our Milky Way.
New 'galactic atlas' offers stunning details of 400,000 galaxies near the Milky Way
By Robert Lea published
The new Siena Galaxy Atlas is an information gold mine for astronomers and a free gallery of galaxy portraits for the public.
Galactic archeology reveals Milky Way's neighbor Andromeda has a violent past
By Robert Lea published
A new chemical analysis of stars in Andromeda has revealed the galaxy next door had a more chaotic upbringing than the Milky Way, defined by a galactic clash and merger.
The Milky Way is warped, and it might be the work of dark matter
By Robert Lea published
The Milky Way is warped and scientists may finally know why. New research lays the blame for our 'wobbly disked' galaxy on an off-kilter, invisible halo of dark matter.
The Milky Way's 'fountain of youth' is made of forbidden stars and water ice
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers have seen a shocking wealth of young stars and ice water around our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.
Dark Energy Camera peels back layers of 'galactic onion' stretched across space
By Samantha Mathewson published
The shell galaxy NGC 3923's symmetrical onion-like layers, that extend 150,000 light-years across space, appear in a new photo from the Dark Energy Camera.
Astronomers discover thousands of active red galaxy hearts with powerful radio signals
By Keith Cooper published
The radio signals hint at an important evolutionary step in the lives of galaxies.
How our Milky Way galaxy would look in gravitational waves (video)
By Keith Cooper published
The gravitational waves are emitted by ultracompact binaries of black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs.
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