Before our minds start to reel at these scales, let's return to the Andromeda Galaxy and examine it from our vantage point on the dust-grain planet we call Earth. The remarkable thing is that the ...

Our Milky Way galaxy ... considerably. "Planets will keep on orbiting as usual, though the constellation patterns visible ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way’s closest major galactic neighbor, and it has broken the record for the ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy ... around the Andromeda galaxy and form the dwarf galaxies there, a bit like moons forming around a planet. However, another team ...

Take a good, hard look at the Milky Way Galaxy in the image above ... dragging Earth and the other planets with it. But even though the Milky Way and Andromeda each have 100 billion stars ...