Some mind-blowing facts about the Andromeda Galaxy | The Secrets Of The Universe

• Zooming in on the Andromeda Galaxy 10.3.23 • This video begins with a ground-based view of the night sky, before zooming in on a Hubble image of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31. The new Hubble image of the galaxy is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years. • Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger (Skysur

Is our galaxy really going to collide with Andromeda? 🤯 For years, astronomers believed the Milky Way and Andromeda were on a direct collision course in about 4.5 billion years. But new research using data from our Gaia mission and @hubbleesa suggests the story isn’t so simple. After running 100 000 simulations with the most precise data available, scientists now say there’s only a 50% chance the two galaxies will collide in the next 10 billion years. The Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our sate

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