Milky Way vs Andromeda (because now we're in with a chance)
Buckle up and pack your popcorn: we're in for some intergalactic fireworks, only not quite like we were expecting.
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Page 6 - News tagged with andromeda
Milky Way ties with neighbor in galactic arms race
Astronomers have discovered that our nearest large neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy, is roughly the same size as the Milky Way. It had been thought that Andromeda was two to three times the size of the Milky Way, and that ...
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Feb 14, 2018
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Andromeda galaxy was formed in 'recent' star crash: study
The Milky Way's neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, was formed in a colossal crash between two smaller star systems no more than three billion years ago when Earth already existed, researchers said Wednesday.
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Multiwavelength image of the 'Toothbrush' galaxy cluster
Most galaxies lie in clusters containing from a few to thousands of objects. Our Milky Way, for example, belongs to a cluster of about fifty galaxies called the Local Group whose other large member is the Andromeda galaxy ...
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Dec 27, 2017
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Dawn of a galactic collision
A riot of colour and light dances through this peculiarly shaped galaxy, NGC 5256. Its smoke-like plumes are flung out in all directions and the bright core illuminates the chaotic regions of gas and dust swirling through ...
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Dec 14, 2017
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Hubble catches a galaxy duo by the 'hare'
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the unusual galaxy IRAS 06076-2139, found in the constellation Lepus (The Hare). Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instruments ...
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Astrophysicists study 'rejuvenating' pulsar in a neighboring galaxy
Lomonosov Moscow State University scientists published the results of a study of unique ultra-slow pulsar XB091D. This neutron star is believed to have captured a companion only a million years ago, and since then, has been ...
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Apr 25, 2017
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Andromeda's bright X-ray mystery solved by NuSTAR
The Milky Way's close neighbor, Andromeda, features a dominant source of high-energy X-ray emission, but its identity was mysterious until now. As reported in a new study, NASA's NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) ...
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Mar 24, 2017
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Fermi finds possible dark matter ties in Andromeda galaxy
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has found a signal at the center of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy that could indicate the presence of the mysterious stuff known as dark matter. The gamma-ray signal is similar to ...
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Hubble sees spiral in Andromeda
The Andromeda constellation is one of the 88 modern constellations and should not be confused with our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy. The Andromeda constellation is home to the pictured galaxy known as NGC 7640.
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