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Andromeda will hit the Milky Way - but the real danger is not the collision
The video ranks the biggest cosmic threats to humanity, from rogue planets and black holes to supernovas, gamma ray bursts, ...
More recent work, however, casts doubt on the certainty that the two galaxies will clash, eventually forming a single, ...
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The Milky Way has been forged by collisions with other galaxies. So why does it keep forgetting them?
New research shows how rapidly the Milky Way erases traces of collisions ...
As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.
Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from Germany, France and Sweden show that most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local ...
For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...
However, the Milky Way did not form in isolation. For decades, scientists have suspected that a violent collision with a smaller galaxy played an important role in shaping the Milky Way as we observe ...
A new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy has been discovered in the vicinity of Andromeda (M31), the Milky Way's large neighboring ...
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