In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

While the Triangulum galaxy’s gravitational influence conspired to bring the Milky Way and Andromeda together, the LMC had a repellent effect. And when all four danced together, the odds of an ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On a clear night, some stars of the galaxy can be seen from Earth.

Located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth, Andromeda, which is also known as Messier 31m has been a focus of the space community for more than a century, with early observations dating back ...

The researchers observed Andromeda XXXV with the Hubble Space Telescope. “This type of galaxy was only discoverable around one system, the Milky Way, in the past,” Bell said.

Also known as Andromeda, the Milky Way’s most immediate neighbor is about 2.5 million light-years away, and provides an excellent option for studying how spiral galaxies form and evolve over time.

While they used the radial velocity of the larger galaxy to determine this, they didn't properly take Andromeda's transverse velocity into account, this new study claims.

Composite view. Credit: Chandra X-ray Center The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years.