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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.
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Every major galaxy is speeding away from us, except one — and we finally know why
A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...
This idea is called the big bang model—which is an unfortunate name because it brings to mind a cosmos expanding like an ...
The NSF NOIRLab-operated Gemini North telescope captured stunning imagery of galaxies UGC 12914 and UGC 12915, aka 'Taffy Galaxies.' Their 'twisted appearance is the result of a head-on collision' ...
Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the researchers identified an ongoing merger event of at least ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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 ...
(CNN) — A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912. But new ...
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 ...
Astronomers at Texas A&M University have discovered a rare, tightly packed collision of galaxies in the early universe, suggesting that galaxies were interacting and shaping their surroundings far ...
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