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Our Milky Way galaxy was not always a spiral. Here's how it changed shape
Space via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA century-old mystery of how galaxies shift shapes has been solved by considering "survival of the...
Galactic archeology reveals Milky Way's neighbor Andromeda has a violent past
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA new chemical analysis of stars in Andromeda has revealed the galaxy next door had a more chaotic...
Andromeda galaxy crash triggered a mass galactic migration 2 billion years ago
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLong exposure of Andromeda Galaxy Astronomers have discovered new evidence that Andromeda, the...
Fugitive Stars Are Escaping From Their Galaxy—and Heading to Ours
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFugitive Stars Are Heading to Our GalaxyNASA/JPL-Caltech Our Milky Way galaxy and Andromeda are...
Our neighbor the Andromeda Galaxy shines overhead this week. Here's how to see it
Space via Yahoo News· 7 months agoLocated at a distance of 2.5 million light-years, the Andromeda Galaxy is readily visible to the...
"Cosmic collision" shows the fate of the Milky Way
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOne of the universe's most spectacular events, a galactic merger, has been observed 60 million light-years away near the Virgo constellation. New photos...
Hubble Space Telescope spots a cosmic 'tug of war' between galaxies that could lead to a collision...
Space via Yahoo News· 4 months agoNASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a cosmic 'tug of war' between two galaxies that have...
Just How Many Galaxies Are in the Universe?
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSo much about galaxies remains a mystery. We know what they're made of and that we live in one (the Milky Way), but how many galaxies are in the...
The Milky Way's stunning spiral structure appears to be an anomaly. But why?
Space via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAn illustration that shows the Milky Way's spiral arms. If you were to spring from Earth so high you...
Hubble Telescope spies massive 'bridge of stars' connecting 2 galaxies on collision course (image)
Space via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a 250,000-light-year-long 'bridge of stars' stretching through...