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Andromeda is headed toward the Milky Way, while other galaxies are moving away—and now we know why
A sheet of dark matter lying beyond the boundary of the Local Group is responsible for this.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hypothetical view from Earth as the Andromeda galaxy (on left) is about to collide with part of the Milky Way galaxy. Our Milky ...
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Scientists finally reveal why Andromeda is racing toward the Milky Way
For more than a century, astronomers have watched in astonishment as the Andromeda galaxy ignored the grand flow of cosmic expansion and hurtled straight toward the Milky Way. While almost every other ...
A new study found that there was only a 2% probability of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies colliding. Photo by NASA ESA Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI T. Hallas and A. Mellinger May 30 (UPI) ...
It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...
There's a 50% chance that the predicted head-on collision will end in a galactic merger, according to a new study. Reading time 2 minutes For decades, astronomers have predicted that, in approximately ...
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