A massive star in the Andromeda galaxy brightened in infrared light starting around 2014, then faded from optical view and effectively vanished, in what researchers interpret as a direct collapse into ...

The Milky Way and Andromeda have appeared locked on a destructive course for decades. Now, thousands of simulations suggest their collision is not destiny, but a contest between gravity, uncertain ...

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(WVUE) - At 1.5 billion pixels, it's the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda Galaxy. Captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the photo shows the closest spiral galaxy to ...

A single photograph taken from orbit has managed to make a rare visual connection between the mundane life on Earth and the vastness of the universe outside. Framed from the International Space ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from Germany, France and Sweden show that most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local ...

A newly confirmed dwarf galaxy orbiting Andromeda contains so few stars that automated detection pipelines ignored it entirely — and that invisibility may be precisely what makes it scientifically ...

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