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To: UCANSEE2

“The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at about 100 to 140 kilometres per second (62 to 87 mi/s) (400 lightyears every million years),[61] so it is one of the few blue-shifted galaxies” (wikipedia)

Blue. I was wrong in my former statement. Mea culpa!


12 posted on 05/25/2011 1:39:12 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

Something I learned during this was that the theory of why the galaxies collide, even though they are said to be expanding away from each other, is that it is like a cosmic entanglement. Let them get a little too close, while on adjacent trajectories, and they will tend to merge/collide/crash.

Apparently the reason they do this, is because of gravity. However, there is not enough mass in the galaxies to exert such a pull. So.... dark matter. A fudge factor for explaining a process we don’t fully understand.


13 posted on 05/25/2011 12:19:15 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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