Three possible encounter scenarios between our Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Top left: Galaxies M81 and M82. Top right: NGC 6786, a pair of interacting galaxies.

Now, this decade-long belief is being challenged by new research that suggests the Milky Way and Andromeda may not be on a collision course after all. The study, published today in Nature ...

Astronomers previously thought our galaxy could crash into its closest neighbour in 5 billion years. But a new study predicts there's a nearly 50 per cent chance the galaxies won't collide, or it ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way.

The photo does appear to feature the Andromeda galaxy and a few of its smaller neighbors. However, according to Svoboda, they aren't in the right spot in the sky. Using an online tool called ...

We'll update this post as necessary. On April 15, 2025, a photo posted to social media sites like Facebook and X claimed to show a stunning image of the Andromeda galaxy taken over the Swiss Alps.

The researchers observed Andromeda XXXV with the Hubble Space Telescope. “This type of galaxy was only discoverable around one system, the Milky Way, in the past,” Bell said.

That’s because McCarthy recently unveiled a 400-megapixel photo of the Andromeda Galaxy—our closest galactic neighbor, located 2.5 million light-years away.

This beautiful image of Andromeda galaxy’s core was captured by Spitzer Space Telescope which was retired in 2020. Also known as Messier 31 or M31 is the nearest galaxy to our milky way.

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Today, we know the Andromeda galaxy, one of an estimated 6 to 20 trillion galaxies in our universe, is about 2.5 million light years away.