Still, if you get to see the Andromeda Galaxy, consider that you are seeing light 2.5 million years old, dating from when the human species was just beginning to establish a fragile foothold on ...

Eventually, in about 4.5 billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda are expected to collide and merge, forming a larger elliptical galaxy — a dramatic event already underway on a cosmic timescale.

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have determined that in approximately 4 billion years, the Andromeda Galaxy — our closest cosmic neighbor — will collide with the Milky Way. According ...

Our galaxy and Andromeda are heading toward each other. There's still 2.5 million light-years between the two galaxies, but in 4 billion years or so, the two galaxies will come very close.

THE MILKY WAY is on a “doomsday” collision course with a nearby galaxy – and the enormous space smash just got a new deadline. Scientists now believe we’ll hit Andromeda in 4.5bil… ...

Andromeda Galaxy Brought Down To Size for Head-to-Head Collision With Milky Way Published Feb 15, 2018 at 4:30 AM EST Updated Feb 15, 2018 at 8:46 AM EST ...

Lonely Travelers But the team aren’t sure how many are likely to be visible. They say that in the worst-case scenario, at least ten of the hypervelocity stars in our galaxy should be from Andromeda.

Andromeda Galaxy Three Times Bigger In Diameter Than Previously Thought Date: June 1, 2005 Source: California Institute Of Technology Summary: The lovely Andromeda galaxy appeared as a warm fuzzy ...