A spectacular view of the Andromeda galaxy [Robert Gendler]

Andromeda and the Milky Way, Two Galaxies on a Collision Course

The two large spiral galaxies will eventually collide in five billion years or so, according to calculations based on data published in the second release of the Gaia astrometric satellite catalog. But it won’t be a head-on collision

Michele Diodati
Amazing Science
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7 min readNov 7, 2020

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Michele Diodati
Amazing Science

Science writer with a lifelong passion for astronomy and comparisons between different scales of magnitude.