Category: Andromeda

The Andromeda Galaxy’s Cannibalistic Feasts Revealed by a Dark Stream

An international team of scientists, led by an astrophysicist from the University of Sydney, has found the leftovers of a colossal cannibalistic feeding event in the far outskirts of the Andromeda galaxy. Honor students Tim Adams from Sydney University and Yuan Li from the University of Auckland discovered a structure of stars, known as a globular cluster (GC),…


Astronomers Discover Cosmic ‘Angel Wings’ Caused by Collision of 2 Galaxies in Leo Constellation

Out of a vast galactic menagerie of space images, a pair of celestial “angel wings” was discovered by researchers—the stunning spectacle, composed of trails of stars and dust, formed as a result of two galaxies colliding. The picture, taken by NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope, shows a nearly symmetrical object in the VV689 system, in the…