COllision of the galaxies?

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i saw something very intersting on the discovery channel, wherwe it showed that the milky way galxy and our neighbor galoxy(i don't remeber the name of it) will be colliding together in millions of years, and i think there's a huge possibility that it'll happen because it has been seen by gaintic telscopes that other galaxies, far, far away had collisons with one other; wll,m it wasn't really seen by tyelescopes, but by taking pictures form space.
 
The Hubble Site shows that galactic collisions were common during the earlier history of our Universe. Our merger with the Andromeda Galaxy will occur over a billion years, and may or may not be an impactful one.

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That would be the collision with the Andromeda galaxy.

from Wikipedia...

< The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Sun at about 300 kilometers per second (186 miles/s.), so it is one of the few blue shifted galaxies. Given the motion of the Solar System inside the Milky Way, one finds that the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are approaching one another at a speed of 100 to 140 kilometers per second (62–87 miles/s.; 223,200–313,200mph). The collision is predicted to occur in about 2.5 billion years. In that case the two galaxies will likely merge to form a giant elliptical galaxy. However, Andromeda's tangential velocity with respect to the Milky Way is only known to within about a factor of two, which creates uncertainty about the details of when the collision will take place and how it will proceed. Such events are frequent among the galaxies in galaxy groups. >
 
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