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Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, located in the constellation of Andromeda. It is a barred spiral galaxy with a diameter of about 152,000 light-years and a mass of 1 trillion solar masses.
The Andromeda Galaxy with M110 at upper left and M32 to the right of the core. The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) has satellite galaxies just like the Milky Way.Orbiting M31 are at least 13 dwarf galaxies: the brightest and largest is M110, which can be seen with a basic telescope.
Scientists say there's a 50/50 chance that our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy, challenging previous certainty about this cosmic event.
Messier 110 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy in the Andromeda Galaxy, discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783. It has patches of dust and young stars, lacks a supermassive black hole, and has been observed to have novae.
A magnificent cloud of diffuse halo of plasma surrounding our galactic neighbor, Andromeda, was recently mapped by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. This close proximity means that ...
The studies also suggest that M33, the Triangulum Galaxy—the third-largest and third-brightest galaxy of the Local Group—will participate in the collision event, too. Its most likely fate is to end up orbiting the merger remnant of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies and finally to merge with it in an even more distant future.
This October 2023 photo of the Andromeda Galaxy was taken from the author's backyard using an 8-inch telescope. The spiral galaxy is considered the most distant object that can be seen with the ...
Andromeda is one of the largest constellations in the northern celestial hemisphere, named for the mythical princess chained to a rock by a sea monster. It contains the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, and several bright stars and nebulae.