Astronomical Survey Reveals Andromeda's Galaxy-Gorging Past

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 16:28 in Astronomy & Space

A highly detailed survey of the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, which as a nearby spiral galaxy is something of an observational proxy for our own Milky Way, shows the remnants of smaller galaxies that our neighbor appears to have cannibalized. [More]

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