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Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor. Composed by NASA and international space partners, the image combines data from ...

It’s been textbook knowledge for over a century that our Milky Way galaxy is doomed to collide with another large spiral galaxy, Andromeda, in the next 5 billion years and merge into one even bigger ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new study complicates the story. Researchers have long thought that the Milky Way ...

China's Wide Field Survey Telescope has captured an amazing view of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Credit: Space.com | footage ...

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Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes. The galaxy next door to the Milky Way, Andromeda, has never looked as stunning ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two ...

The Andromeda galaxy (M31) has been captured by the Chandra X-ray Telescope. See the imagery and hear a sonification of it.