For more than a hundred years, astronomers have been convinced that the Andromeda galaxy is on a collision path with the milky way, this is projected to occur in around 5 billion years. However, a ...

Our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, is moving towards the Milky Way galaxy at an alarming rate ... a galaxy similar in size to ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

The nearby galaxy Andromeda is speeding towards us at 250,000 mph. It has a long way to travel - about 2.5 million light-years - but it's likely to crash into the Milky Way in about 4 billion years.

An curved arrow pointing right. In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.

Situated approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth, the Andromeda Galaxy is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, belonging to the Local Group cluster. It is a barred spiral galaxy ...

These objects were actually the Andromeda and Messier 33 galaxies ... the distance to his Cepheid exceeded Shapley's size for the Milky Way. Over subsequent months, Hubble examined other spiral ...

Cepheid variable stars vary in size and brightness over a period ... did most of the labor-intensive legwork. The Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy are on a collision course.