[Chaos-l] Reblog: Andromeda/Milky Way collision in 4+B years

[Jon Stewart-Taylor]

For those who don't check Bad Astronomy regularly, there's a nifty  
article about the predicted collision of M31 with the Milky Way galaxy:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/05/31/hold-on-tight-in-4-billion-years-were-due-for-a-galactic-collision/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BadAstronomyBlog+%28Bad+Astronomy%29

Doesn't say what's going to happen to all the satellite galaxies (ours  
and theirs), but i expect they'll be swallowed up in the resulting  
elliptical merged galaxy.

J.
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