Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

The Canis Major dwarf is a lightweight galaxy, today weighing only as much as a billion suns, or about one-fiftieth as much as the disk of the Milky Way. So far, it may have contributed as much as ...

An international team of astronomers has found a previously unknown galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way. Called the Canis Major dwarf galaxy after the constellation in which it lies, the star ...

The Canis Major dwarf galaxy is not faring well in its gravitational battle with the Milky Way, and there are streamers of stars being pulled off the smaller galaxy onto the disk of our own.

Although not visible with the naked eye, the irregular Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy also calls this constellation home, and is thought to be the closest galaxy to our neck of the woods, out on the ...

An even closer galaxy named the Canis Major Dwarf is located a mere 25,000 light-years from Earth, but it has become so disrupted by the Milky Way that many of its stars are already strewn across ...

The Canis Major dwarf galaxy had previously escaped detection because it is hidden behind dense clouds of dust. However, an international team of astronomers found it using infrared data from the ...

For instance, Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is our closest galactic neighbor. It is 236,000,000,000,000,000 miles away and its light takes 25,000 years to reach us, so its distance is 25,000 light-years.

Canis Major Dwarf: Located in the located in the Canis Major constellation, this dwarf irregular galaxy is the closest to our Milky Way, located at an approximate distance of about 25,000 light ...

Technically, the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way, but the two closest galaxies (the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal and Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy) are very small, very dim, and ...

Although not visible with the naked eye, the irregular Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy also calls this constellation home, and is thought to be the closest galaxy to our neck of the woods, out on the ...