What Happens When Galaxies Collide? In about four billion years from now, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will crash together Visualization: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers, STScI Simulation credit ...

LONDON — Car crashes produce loud booms, but it is nothing compared to the shockwaves when two galaxies collide. That’s precisely what happened when galaxy NGC 7318b, traveling two million ...

What Happens When Galaxies Collide? In about four billion years from now, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will crash together Visualization: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers, STScI Simulation credit ...

However, NASA has created step-by-step illustrations depicting what those future night-sky views would look like as the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies collide. Take a look.

NGC 7318b, one of the galaxies, travelled towards the other ... Astronomers estimate a 50% chance that the Milky Way will collide with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy within the next 10 billion ...

The two spiral galaxies are currently pushing each other away, creating a dust band and accelerating the birth of stars; however, they are expected to eventually collide and merge into a single galaxy ...

"If two galaxies actually collide with each other the stars basically pass right between each other, and the chance of two stars directly hitting each other is really, really small," said van der ...

My collaborators and I have just tackled one of astrophysics’ enduring mysteries: how massive elliptical galaxies can form. Now, for the first time, we have solid observational evidence that ...