"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, the Milky Way’s mass is about 1.5 trillion solar masses ...

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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 ...

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy’s demise ... believe it will start colliding with its neighbor Andromeda. However, a new analysis of a more distant galaxy ...

This new knowledge comes from the outskirts of Andromeda, the Milky Way's nearest major galactic neighbor, where astronomers have found the system's smallest and dimmest satellite galaxy to date.

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Researchers led by astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered the smallest and dimmest galaxy to date that's orbiting the Andromeda system, the Milky Way's nearest major galactic ...