New research on pulsing stars has shifted the boundary of the Milky Way a few thousand light-years closer to the Andromeda galaxy.
, which are stars with a brightness that can change as viewed from Earth.
. GuhaThakurta is professor and chair of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California Santa Cruz. “Our galaxy and Andromeda are both so big, there’s hardly any space between the two galaxies.”The Milky Way galaxy consists of a few different parts, the primary of which is a thin, spiralsolar system sits on one of the arms of this disk.
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