Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

"It was actually a total surprise to find the satellites in that configuration and we still don’t fully understand why they appear that way." ...

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

As space telescopes improved over just the past ... and lies about half a million light-years from the center of the Andromeda Galaxy, or about three times the width of M31 itself.

An ambitious survey by the Hubble Space Telescope was made to plot the galaxy locations in three-dimensional space. In this video we circle around a model of the Andromeda system based on real ...

The authors stress that because the galaxy is so faint, there is still much to learn about Andromeda XXXV. The researchers' ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

The cosmos has a way of keeping astronomers on their toes. Just beyond the edges of the Andromeda galaxy, researchers have identified the tiniest galaxy ever ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. For decades, capturing detailed images of galaxies beyond the Milky Way has felt like ...

The brightest companion galaxy to Andromeda is Messier 32 (M32 ... In another five years Hubble or NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will be able to get the second set of observations, allowing ...

A major discovery on the outskirts of Andromeda is shaking up our understanding of galactic evolution. Astronomers have found the dimmest and smallest satellite galaxy yet—Andromeda XXXV—forcing them ...