Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

The Andromeda Galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor, just 2.5 million light-years away, has long captivated astronomers with ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory has combined different wavelength images of the Andromeda galaxy to honor astronomer Vera Rubin, and then created a music video by converting the light in those images to ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

“For example, Chandra’s X-rays reveal the high-energy radiation around the supermassive black hole at the center of M31 as ...

Andromeda is about 260,000 light-years wide, according to NASA, making it the largest galaxy in the Local Group.However, its mass is roughly comparable to or even less than that of the Milky Way ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912.

The Andromeda Galaxy, or M31, is our largest galactic neighbor. It sits approximately 2.5 million light-years away The Andromeda Galaxy, or M31, is our largest galactic neighbor.

The Andromeda galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way. The observations recorded by Hubble yield new clues about the history of Andromeda, ...

There’s now a 50-50 chance this galaxy will crash into ours. Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda.

Welcome To The Andromeda Galaxy. Andromeda is 2.5 million light years from the Milky Way. Cmosmically speaking, that's very close. It's home to at least a trillion stars.