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Andromeda Galaxy Facts

Closest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy is Andromeda and even traveling at the speed of light it would take 2 million years to reach it. Andromeda Galaxy, Milky Way, the Triangulum Galaxy, and about 30 smaller galaxies belong to a group called Local Group. There are 100 billion galaxies that we can observe. Prediction is that there is much more, but Hubble Space Telescope couldn't detect them. The Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way is predicted to merge within the next 5 billion years. In the event like this smaller galaxies are consumed by larger ones. Andromeda galaxy is twice as large as Milky Way.




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DENIS
IT'S GOOD BUT IT CAN BE BETTER.
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DENIS at 11:53PM, Apr 19th 2008.
Dale E. Vandervort
Excellent!

Thank you!

God Bless you!
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Dale E. Vandervort at 03:09PM, Jun 14th 2008.
Splff
and 6 million the sun is supposed to explode and in 10 million if that doesnt happen and it just dies out before it expands and kill up then andromeda ye the galexy is going to crash in to the milky way ye us
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Splff at 12:18AM, Aug 30th 2008.
winky
is this all u have to do all day???
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winky at 10:43AM, Feb 2nd 2009.
corey
you could reach it faster by useign worm holes as shortcuts
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corey at 08:57AM, Mar 16th 2009.
pyxzer
Andromeda is the closest spiral galaxy, the Milky Way has at least two satellite galaxies which are closer than Andromeda.
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pyxzer at 11:57AM, Apr 8th 2009.
ebonie
i feel the scientist will get us a portal or so in the vfuture
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ebonie at 12:03AM, Apr 16th 2009.
don
your mind is like galaxies but galaxies are not like your mind
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don at 12:09AM, May 14th 2009.
David
Splff wrote: #
and 6 million the sun is supposed to explode and in 10 million if that doesnt happen and it just dies out before it expands and kill up then andromeda ye the galexy is going to crash in to the milky way ye us


Yo Splff! It's 6 BILLION years! Not million. And to the fact: How encouraging to our future generations!
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David at 10:33AM, Jun 3rd 2009.
GT
and imagine all the galaxies that we can not see infinity
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GT at 08:51PM, Aug 15th 2009.
Ryan Koenig
this was super not right.
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Ryan Koenig at 01:24PM, Sep 29th 2009.
EKTA
Its very fantastic and like the interesting facts
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EKTA at 12:48AM, Feb 18th 2010.

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