Astronomers Confused to Discover That a Bunch of Nearby Galaxies Are Pointing Directly at Us

Like how the Earth keeps the Moon bound on a gravitational tether, our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy (M31), is surrounded by a bunch of tiny satellite galaxies. But there's something incredibly strange about how these mini realms are arranged, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Almost all of the satellite galaxies appear on one side of its host and are pointing at us — the Milky Way — instead of...