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Of course, Andromeda is not the only thing that could collide with the Milky Way. There is currently a large cloud of hydrogen gas on a collision course with the Milky Way and though the edge of the cloud is already interacting with our galaxy, it won’t set off star-forming fireworks ...
The Milky Way and Andromeda during the merger—a close up. Credit: ICRAR Astronomers have discovered that our nearest big neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, is roughly the same size as theMilky Way. It had been thought that Andromeda was two to three times the size of the Milky Way, and t...
Both the Milky Way and Andromeda are moving together in the direction of what's called the Great Attractor, the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy reported. The Great Attractor is thought to be the center of the Laniakea Supercluster. However, observations of this region of the local ...
The Milky Way and Andromeda are the two biggest objects in what is called the Local Group, which is just a collection of our closest intergalactic neighbors. And as is implied by the word “collection” there, we are not alone in that neighborhood. There’s actually a few dozen little...
Nearest and furthest Galaxy Excluding the Milky Way and its companion galaxies, such as the Magellanic Clouds (Large and Small), the nearest major Galaxy to us is the Andromeda Galaxy, which is 2.5 million light-years away. However, this will not always be the case.Whilst...
What lies at the far reaches of the universe? This is a question that science has yet to answer, but most young people in China today already have an answer. According to them, at the end of the universe is not the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy or the Canes Venatici Constellation, ...
The galaxies are moving away from Earth because the fabric of space itself is expanding. While galaxies themselves are on the move — the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way, for example, are on a collision course— there is an overall phenomenon of redshift happening as the universe gets big...
A hypothetical view from Earth as the Andromeda galaxy (on left) is about to collide with part of the Milky Way galaxy.Credit: NASA OurMilky Way galaxyis a cannibal. It has grown byconsuming other galaxies. Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy:...
3.Andromeda, the largest galaxy in the Local Group, is one galaxy that can be seen - at least partially - with the naked eye. 4,The Milky Way is the second largest galaxy, followed by the Triangulum Galaxy. The Local Group contains about 50 galaxies, most of which ar...