Galactic merger will end the universe as we know it
PARIS. June 1. KAZINFORM If you believe in the Mayan prediction that 2012 is the end of the world, stop reading and jog on. If you're more science-minded, you'll see we may have slightly more time before the Apocalypse.
NASA can now "predict with certainty" that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with our neighbours' Andromeda, known in geeky circles as M31, now a modest 2.5 million light-years away, the euronews reports.
The mutual pull of gravity between Milky Way and Andromeda - let's call it their galactic tug of war - will land us in the next cosmic breaking news. "Our findings are statistically consistent with a head-on collision between the Andromeda galaxy and our Milky Way galaxy," says Roeland van der Marel of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).
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