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#Repost///@james.webb.telescope.official: Milkomeda galaxy is the result of the collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda.Most Galaxies are moving away from us but some are moving towards us. The Andromeda Galaxy is moving towards us at a speed of 250,000 miles per hour. It is double the size of our galaxy with two nuclei at the center. The galaxy is now 2.5 million light-years away and it will take 4 billion years before the strike. To make matters more complicated, M31's small companion, the Triangulum galaxy, M33, will join in the collision and perhaps later merge with the Milkomeda. There is a small chance that M33 will hit the Milky Way first. At the time of the merger, our Sun is in its red giant phase meaning that at that time Earth is no longer habitable. In 7 billion years from now the merged galaxies form a huge elliptical galaxy.