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AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:
A new study, based on data from Hubble and ESA’s Gaia space telescope, has re-examined the long-held prediction of a collision and merger between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy in ~5 billion years.
By accounting for uncertainties in existing measurements and including the gravitational influence of other nearby galaxies (the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Triangulum Galaxy), researchers found the probability of a merger in the next 10 billion years is ~50%.
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https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/apocalypse-when-hubble-casts-doubt-on-certainty-of-galactic-collision/
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