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"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." ...
A recent paper reveals we're almost certainly going to collide with a galaxy in the next couple billion years, but it's not ...
The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.
The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over ...
Hubble’s dazzling new image reveals colorful gas and dust clouds in the LMC. Using five filters, it maps stellar nurseries ...
For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become ...
More than a decade ago, scientists predicted our Milky Way galaxy and neighboring Andromeda would collide in four billion ...
The chance that our Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy may not be as certain as previously thought, ...