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To: Slyfox

Galaxies are mostly moving apart, except our huge neighbor Andromeda which is on a collision course with our Milky Way galaxy. The collision is about 3 billion years away.

The constellations we can see with our bare eyes are all nearby stars in the Milky Way and are orbiting the massive black hole in the center of the galaxy so they are moving along with us. The stars in the Milky Way are not moving apart, they are slowly being sucked into the black hole. Generally it is other galaxies that are moving away from us (except for Andromeda).


9 posted on 07/01/2017 7:22:36 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
So you're saying global climate change isn't as big a deal as a galactic collision?

The Mony Python Galaxy song

10 posted on 07/01/2017 7:25:26 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: MtnClimber

Aren’t they kind of figuring out that every galaxy has at least one black hole?


13 posted on 07/01/2017 7:37:51 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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