A previously unknown dwarf galaxy has been discovered on the outskirts of the Andromeda Galaxy, adding to the growing list of ...

"It was actually a total surprise to find the satellites in that configuration and we still don’t fully understand why they ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy, which they have named Pegasus VII. The ...

Clusters of galaxies ... The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd entry in Charles Messier's catalog of fuzzy things in the sky). Also in the Local Group ...

THE 200 inch telescope on Palomar Mountain has recently been used for a detailed photometric and spectroscopic study of the globular clusters associated with the Andromeda nebula. This ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy ... and that the groups typically belong to large galaxy clusters, sometimes containing thousands of galaxies. Galaxy groups and clusters, in ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

Here is a list of galaxies that are known in this universe other than your Milky Way galaxy. It is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the nearest major galaxy to the ...

TThe Andromeda Galaxy (also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224; older texts often called it the Andromeda Nebula) is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the ...