What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way completes the merger with the Andromeda Galaxy? Bryan ...

Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda ...

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 ...

But what of smaller astronomical bodies, like the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy that is expected to collide with the Milky Way in 2.4 billion years? Nobody is quite sure whether ...

Though the Milky Way and Andromeda formed presumably around the same time many billions of years ... an associate professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley. "This was probably due to a collision with ...

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 ...

Andromeda clearly has had a more active merger history than the Milky Way, and we can see that in the velocity plane quite clearly ... an associate professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley. "This was ...

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 ...

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 ...