AFP 2012-06-01 16:05:20
This image obtained from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows the Andromeda Galaxy. Roeland van der Marel, of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, announced on May 31, 2012 that Andromeda and the Milky Way Galaxy are on a collision course and will crash head-on in four billion years. The theory of the collision has long been known, but van der Marel and his collegues have confirmed it. Using the Hubble telescope astromers were able to measure Andromeda's sideway motion, a key component of the galaxy's path through space, and which no one had been able to determine. "The Andromeda Galaxy is heading straight in our direction," van der Marel said. The galaxies are moving toward one another at a speed of about 250,000 mph (400,000 kilometers per hour). = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS =
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