China's Wide Field Survey Telescope has captured an amazing view of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

A minority view, however, held that the Milky Way ... Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they find it to be about 2 1/2 million light ...

The galaxy in question is the famous Andromeda Galaxy ... it’s hard to tell. It’s also a top-tier celestial sight that doesn’t look that special in all but the largest of telescopes.

For context, our closest major galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy at a whopping 2. ... But aboard the ISS, astronauts can catch a view of the galaxy duo whenever the station crosses into the nighttime ...

The nearby galaxy Andromeda is speeding towards us at 250,000 mph. It has a long way to travel - about 2.5 million light-years - but it's likely to crash into the Milky Way in about 4 billion years.

Take a good, hard look at the Milky Way Galaxy in the image above - eventually, this view will be completely ... Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way at a speed of ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

In fact, the furthest ends of the galaxy would reach all the way to the Andromeda galaxy, which is our nearest galactic ...