Andromeda and Milky Way Galaxies Colliding

The Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy are moving towards each other slowly. In billions of years, scientists expect them to collide, and this is a 3D impression of what may happen.

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• Hubble
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• milky
• way
• galaxy
• collision
• collide
• andromeda
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• galaxies
• space
• future
• impression
• 3D
• 3-D

[scienceguy474]

i chose the name for this new galaxy milkdromeda

[XmegaPresident]

I can't believe that people lack intelligence like yourself.

[FQuee]

@Bodoparkour

Sorry. not being rude or anything but the the closest Galaxy is the Small Magellanic Cloud that is currently coliding with a arm of the Milky Way, well im pretty sure Lol :)

[cactussheep]

I can't differ.. is this a simulation? I mean Andromeda is supposed to be 2 - 3x bigger :/

[THEHUNK8]

Good job.

[rundomized]

@SpeedStackerFan90 About 5 bln. years to come.

[SpeedStackerFan90]

This wont happen for a long long time right?

[lyue1996]

@Bodoparkour Billions of years.

[lyue1996]

@pekelboek haha, you are so stupid.

[PKvidsRme]

@HannahZepplg I am glad you understand :)

[HannahZepplg]

@PKvidsRme yes. i know. lol of course gravitational attraction varies by distance, so yep it depends on the masses of the galaxies. 100km/sec is just an approximate value of a mean velocity, i guess.

[PKvidsRme]

@HannahZepplg Actaully its not 100km/sec, forevery light year the distance from the 2 galaxies shrink yes, but at different velocity's yes. As the gravitational attraction from the 2 galaxies get stronger as they approach each other more and more by the second. No speed will never stay the same, since every in the universe that has a sufficient amount of mass has a gravitational pull/attraction.