The colors of the arrows represent the direction of motion. Relative to the LMC, located at the bottom left of the image, most red arrows show movement towards the LMC, whereas most light blue arrows ...

A new study of M31, also known as Andromeda, explains how our cosmic neighbor kills off smaller nearby galaxies.

Astronomers have uncovered shocking evidence that one of the closest galaxies to our own is being torn to shreds by its neighbor. Located around 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Small Magellanic ...

Astronomers taking a close look at our nearest neighbor galaxy have made a highly unusual and model-challenging discovery; the vast majority of its satellite galaxies appear to be pointing in our ...

Our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, or M31) appears to sport a lopsided arrangement of satellite galaxies that defy scientific models, stumping astronomers who are also trying to figure out ...

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An artists impression of a black hole flinging a hypervelocity star out of the Large Magellanic Cloud. (CfA/Melissa Weiss) A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by ...

This is the largest photomosaic yet assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light years away from Earth. This mosaic ...

A team led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring ...

A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door. This appears to be the closest supermassive black ...