Questions tagged [andromeda]
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Am I correct in assuming during the merger with the Milky Way the structure of the Andromeda Galaxy will not be visible to the naked eye?
First off, I have no expectation humans will be around to view this, and I know the earth will not be habitable 3.75 billion years from now.
This image from the science.nasa website implies this is ...
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Is Sagittarius A* smaller than we might expect given the mass of the Milky Way?
M31* has a mass almost ten times that of Sagittarius A*, despite the Milky Way having greater mass, as measured by escape velocity, than Andromeda. I have seen numbers for several other spiral ...
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