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Subject: Our galaxy on a collision course wi
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valatine 1.06.12 - 03:39pm
Our galaxy is on a collision course with its nearest neighbour, Andromeda, and the head-on crash is expected in four billion years, the US space agency NASA said on Thursday.Astronomers have long theorised that a clash of these galaxy titans was on the way, though it was unknown how severe it might be, or when, with guesses ranging from three to six billion years. But years of extraordinarily precise observations from NASA's Hubble Space telescope tracking the motion of the Andromeda galaxy rem * +
valatine 1.06.12 - 03:42pm
remove any doubt that it is destined to collide and merge with the Milky Way, NASA said in a statement.After the initial impact it will take another two billion years for them to completely merge under the tug of gravity and reshape into a single elliptical galaxy similar to the kind commonly seen in the local universe, NASA added. * +
valatine 1.06.12 - 03:43pm
Scientists have long known that Andromeda, also known as M31, is moving toward the Milky Way at a speed of 250,000 miles (402,000 kilometers) per hour, or fast enough to travel from the Earth to the Moon in one hour.But the nature of the crash depended on the galaxy's sideways motion in the sky, and that trajectory remained a mystery for more than 100 years until the latest an*lysis of Hubble's findings were revealed.This was accomplished by repeatedly observing select regions of the galaxy * +
valatine 1.06.12 - 03:45pm
well there you go ..it looks like we are all going to die 
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valatine 1.06.12 - 03:48pm
you can 
but you cant hide..no matter how much praying you can do it wont save you * +
3bm7 1.06.12 - 03:50pm
It's bulls**t I tell you! I recently read somewhere that places on the outside of the Universe are expanding much more rapidly than in centre. Andromeda can't catch up with us. Your report is old news. * +
dgsn 1.06.12 - 03:50pm
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phallica 1.06.12 - 03:51pm
I'll set my watch. * +
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