NuStar’s latest image maps Andromeda’s dead stars NuSTAR has observed 40 "X-ray binaries" — intense sources of X-rays comprised of a black hole or neutron star that feeds off a stellar ...

A stunning new radio image of the closest galaxy to the Milky Way — Andromeda — has let scientists learn what part of our galactic neighbor stars are born in. The image, published at the ...

The researchers were able to recreate Andromeda’s history by analysing dense groups of stars known as globular clusters. Dr Michelle Collins from the University of Surrey said: “Seeing two ...

Scientists knew Andromeda had swallowed up several smaller galaxies, but the latest survey offered new details about the galaxy's history -- a history of violence that data suggests stretches back ...

Paris: 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 ...

YOU can see the Andromeda galaxy in the night sky this week with the naked eye. The galaxy is estimated to have as many as a trillion stars – and will one day collide with our own Milky Way.

That analysis suggests that Andromeda swallowed a galaxy that was well over 10% of its own mass at a time when it was much smaller than it is at present. But there was something weird about that ...

The Milky Way's neighboring 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 ...