Should the Milky Way-Andromeda daughter galaxy encounter a third, dust-rich lenticular galaxy and merge with it, then the disk-like aspects of both galaxies will also be wiped clean.

Astronomers have used the youngest objects in the Milky Way to build a new map of the galaxy's spiral arms, and the results are far messier than expected. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

But this side-on view hides the galaxy’s structure and prevents astronomers deciphering the shape of our home galaxy. Nevertheless, astronomers currently believe that the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy ...

The Milky Way is not considered an active galaxy—at least, not right now—but according to NASA it likely experienced a "burst of activity" within the past few million years. Spiral Galaxies ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912.

Our planet itself is located along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, about halfway from the center, according to NASA.. The Milky Way sits in a cosmic neighborhood called the Local Group that ...

The two next largest are the Triangulum galaxy (M33), which is about 2.7 million light-­years from the Milky Way (and only 700,000 light-years from Andromeda; they lie close together in the night ...

Galaxies are ordered into galaxy groups, which are in turn organised into clusters. The Earth is in a galaxy called the Milky Way, which is in the Local Group in the Virgo Supercluster. Latest ...

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, with ribbons of gas and stars that streak across its center Credit: Getty Andromeda is another barred spiral located roughly 2.5 million light years away ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912. But new ...