Andromeda–Milky Way collision - Wikipedia
The Andromeda–Milky Way collision is a galactic collision predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group—the Milky Way (which contains the Solar System and Earth) and the Andromeda Galaxy.
The Andromeda and Milky Way collision, explained - Astronomy …
Dec 1, 2023 · Researchers, using Hubble to track the motions of stars in Andromeda with unprecedented accuracy, concluded the galaxies would collide in about 4 billion years. Such collisions are...
NASA’s Hubble Shows Milky Way is Destined for Head-On Collision
May 31, 2012 · NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
Will the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Ever Collide?
Aug 23, 2024 · Andromeda and the Milky Way may collide, or they may safely swing past each other. Time will tell. A pair of far-distant colliding spiral galaxies, as seen by NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space...
Catastrophic collision between Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies …
Aug 19, 2024 · Located roughly 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda (M31) galaxy is approaching our Milky Way at a speed of 68 miles per second (110 kilometers per second).
Crash of the Titans: Milky Way & Andromeda Collision
May 23, 2018 · Hubble Space Telescope observations indicate that the two galaxies, pulled together by their mutual gravity, will crash together in a head-on collision about 4 billion years from now. The thin disk shapes of these spiral galaxies are strongly distorted and irrevocably transformed by the encounter.
The Milky Way is on a collision course — and it’s not the first time
Mar 1, 2022 · Perhaps the most well-known collision in the Milky Way’s neighborhood has yet to happen. The massive Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, will smash into us in about 4 billion years.
Milky Way may escape fated collision with Andromeda galaxy
Aug 9, 2024 · For years, astronomers thought it was the Milky Way’s destiny to collide with its near neighbor the Andromeda galaxy a few billion years from now. But a new simulation finds a 50% chance the impending crunch will end up a near-miss, at least for the next 10 billion years.
Andromeda-Milky Way collision - BBC Sky at Night Magazine
After a spectacular series of close passes lasting billions of years – and which will distort the structure of both galaxies – a final merger of the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way galaxy …
NASA SVS | JWST Science Simulation: Galaxy Collision
Oct 29, 2010 · When two large disk-shaped galaxies merge — as will happen within the next few billion years with the Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy — the result will likely settle into a cloud-shaped elliptical galaxy.