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The Milky Way may not end up colliding with Andromeda after all! Hubble data used to reexamine the prediction.


? Hubble Casts Doubt on Certainty of Galactic Collision Summary A Possible Near Miss Between Our Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy Over a decade’s worth of Hubble Space Telescope data was used to re-examine the long-held prediction that the Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy in about 4.5 billion years. The astronomers found that, based on the latest observational data from Hubble as well as the Gaia space telescope, there is only a 50-50 chance of the two galaxies colliding within the next 10 billion years.

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