Image: Andromeda Collides Milky Way
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Description: This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view and begins to distort the Milky Way with tidal pull.
Title: Andromeda Collides Milky Way
Credit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/milky-way-collide.html
Author: NASA
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