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Most nearby galaxies drift away Andromeda heads inward because our neighborhood is a dark-matter sheet
The suburbia of the Milky Way does not form a ball of matter with the center at its center. Rather, the mass around it is arranged in a wide, flattened form, which alters the sense of gravity back ...
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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.
American astronomer Edwin Hubble (after whom the Hubble Space Telescope is named) coined the term “Local Group” for the galaxies he had identified as moving through space with the Milky Way. The term ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy?
A high-resolution colour image showing the central galaxies NGC5713 and NGC5719 taken by the Hyper Suprime-Cam at the Subaru telescope in Hawaii. A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as ...
A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighbouring galaxies, a new survey has found. A high-resolution colour image showing the central galaxies ...
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