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Start Countdown: We Collide Head-on with Andromeda in Just 4 Billion Years

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New results from NASA scientists working with Hubble’s data, suggests with more certainty that our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy in another 4 billion years. We have long known that our neighbor Andromeda galaxy is hurtling towards us, and will probably collide us in the future. But we were not sure, if the collision will be head-on or it will miss us. Also we were not sure about the timing and impacts of this event. With more data from Hubble, we are now able to predict the collision with more certainty.