Using variable stars as distance markers and the giant telescope on Mount Wilson, Edwin Hubble (then a young and little-known astronomer) was able to show that the Andromeda Nebula was over a ...
neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. According to a new study, our Milky Way galaxy may have already begun colliding with the closest giant galaxy ...
Boing Boing’s Maggie Koerth-Baker made a great comparison today between the actual Andromeda Galaxy (which is 2.5 million years away from Earth), and the Andromeda Galaxy representation that ships as ...