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The Andromeda–Milky Way collision is a galactic collision predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group—the Milky Way (which contains the Solar System and Earth) and the Andromeda Galaxy.
Dec 1, 2023 · Researchers, using Hubble to track the motions of stars in Andromeda with unprecedented accuracy, concluded the galaxies would collide in about 4 billion years. Such collisions are...
May 31, 2012 · NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
Mar 2, 2022 · The Andromeda galaxy is currently racing toward our Milky Way at a speed of about 70 miles (113 km) per second. With this in mind, our merger will occur five billion years from now. But, in...
Nov 15, 2023 · Crash of the Titans: Milky Way & Andromeda Collision. This scientific visualization of a computer simulation depicts the joint evolution of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies over the next several billion years and features the inevitable massive collision.
Jan 24, 2017 · Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-on Collision with Andromeda Galaxy. This video series of photo illustrations shows the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.
Dec 1, 2021 · Our Milky Way galaxy is destined to collide with our closest large neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, in about five billion years. There’s no stopping it, but we can predict what’s going to...
