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Keith Cooper

Pair of colliding galaxies may hint at the fate of the Milky Way and its closest galactic neighbor

Two swirls of colorful light on a starry background.

New observations of a pair of colliding spiral galaxies hint at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and when they collide.

The findings, described in July in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, may also help to solve a puzzle plaguing the standard model of cosmology.

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