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Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a mid-sized galaxy, but did you know that there is another dwarf galaxy that orbits around ...
New research shows that there's a 50% chance that the Milky Way and its nearest major galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy ...
"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 ...
A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, long considered inevitable, may be in question ...
The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over ...
Astronomers have believed for decades that the Milky Way is on a collision course with our nearest big neighbor, Andromeda.
The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.
The most recent nearby supernova, SN 1987A, was in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Milky Way’s youngest known supernova is ...
Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies (M31) are part of what's known as the Local Group (LG), which also hosts other ...
The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space toward each other at a speed of about ...
New data show a 50% chance the Milky Way won't collide with Andromeda. A merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud is far more ...