The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision
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The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision

B1IntermediateNovember 14, 202615 min
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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Uploaded 28-03-18 The Andromeda galaxy is heading straight toward our own Milky Way. The two galaxies will inevitably collide. Will that be the very last night sky our solar system witnesses? You can further support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Get your own Space Time t­-shirt at http://bit.ly/1QlzoBi Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbss...

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In four billion years, anyone left in our solar system will witness the most spectacular event to take place in the history of the night sky, as the Andromeda galaxy plows headlong

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into our own Milky Way. But will that be the very last night sky our solar system witnesses? See that fuzzy blob on the sky?

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The one just left at the Milky Way center in the constellation of Andromeda. That's M31, the Andromeda galaxy. It's 2 and 1 half million light years away

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