Andromeda–Milky Way collision
The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at about 110 kilometres per second (68 mi/s) [additional citation needed] as indicated by blueshift.;This video begins with a ground-based view of the night sky, before zooming in on a Hubble image of the Andromeda galaxy ¿ otherwise known as M31.;At 2.3 million light-years, the Andromeda galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way. It’s the most distant thing you can see with your eye alone.;The Milky Way's nearest neighbor is headed directly towards our galaxy, sooner than astronomers thought;The Andromeda galaxy, our Milky Way's closest neighbor, is the most distant object in the sky that you can see with your unaided eye;Data from Chandra have been used to discover 26 black hole candidates in the Milky Way's galactic neighbor, Andromeda.
Andromeda Galaxy
The Andromeda Galaxy (/ æ n ˈ d r ɒ m ᵻ d ə /), also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light ;The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic neighbour.;A Large Spiral Galaxy. Wider and possibly brighter than our own Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy was once thought to be the dominant member of the Local Group of galaxies.