The Andromeda galaxy may be getting bullied by a smaller galactic neighbor, scientists find

A beautiful white and blue spiral galaxy is seen slightly edge-on with a vast black section of space behind it. There are glowing dots and orbs all across the darkness.

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have shed light on a recent chapter in the history of our Milky Way's neighboring galaxy, Andromeda.

Using Hubble Space Telescope observations of Andromeda's stars, a research team showed that the spiral galaxy's rate of making new stars has dramatically slowed down in the last 40 million years. And they've found more evidence that one of Andromeda's own neighbors — a smaller galaxy called M32 — may be to blame.