Now find Alpheratz at the corner of the “Great Square” of Pegasus. OK, now we have two ways of actually finding the Andromeda Galaxy—one hit-and-hope, and the other more precise: Either with ...

Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy much more precisely; they find it to be about 2 1/2 million light years away. It is a majestic spiral-shaped galaxy ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant ...

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.

Right now, the Andromeda galaxy is racing toward the Milky Way at a speed of 250,000 mph - fast enough to circle the world in just six minutes. And it's scheduled to collide, head-on, with the ...

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.

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

By capturing a far broader sweep of space some 90,000 light years beyond the edges of the galaxy's glowing disc, the team could analyze tell-tale changes in the medium's makeup.