It is well established that within the next 4.5 billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda (M31) galaxies will collide.

Multiple recent studies have focused on galaxies to lift the veil on their formation - by looking at their radio lobes, building computer models or even diagnosing a broken spiral arm.

Bringing together data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the GAIA space telescope, astronomers were able to determine the shape of the Milky Way more accurately, as well they noticed that our galaxy’s spiral arms do a

The latest data release from ESA’s GAIA telescope offers an incomparable window into our galaxy’s history.