Astronomers taking a close look at our nearest neighbor galaxy have made a highly unusual and model-challenging discovery; ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of them orbit, and now this lopsidedness. It just goes to show that sometimes it ...

The dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our own, have an extremely strange distribution that's ...

Every big galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, but scientists are still trying to fully understand how these ...

Then, they pieced together a record of the X-ray light produced by a supermassive black hole in the Andromeda galaxy called M31 star or M31*. Their research provides insight into the unique ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way. Miguel Claro is a professional photographer ...

But new research at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) shows that the satellite galaxies of the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy (M31) have surprising and thus far unexplained ...

Miguel Claro, a renowned astrophotographer and science communicator based in Lisbon, has unveiled his latest cosmic masterpiece: a breathtaking deep-space portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31 ...

It is a panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away. It took over 10 years to make this vast and colorful portrait of the galaxy, requiring over 600 ...