Mar 18, 2017
The Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way about 4.5 billion years
Image credit: Adam Evans
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The Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way about 4.5 billion years
Image credit: Adam Evans
A Galáxia de Andrômeda, tal qual um olho cósmico a nos fitar. . The Andromeda Galaxy, like a cosmic eye looking at us. . Credit: NASA/Chandra/Hubble . #nasa #chandra #hubble #andromeda #galaxy #galaxia #eye #olho #cosmic #cosmico #astrogram #observatoriog1 #space #espaço #astronomy #astronomia #localgroup #grupolocal
A galáxia de Andrômeda, ou M31, é uma galáxia espiral que faz parte do chamado grupo local, um grupo de galáxias que inclui a Via Láctea. Nessa foto impressionante, as nuvens vermelhas são feitas de hidrogênio pertencentes a nossa própria galáxia. . The Andromeda galaxy, or M31, ia a spiral galaxy which is part of the so called local group, a group of galaxies that includes our own Milky Way. In this impressive picture we can see red clouds made of hydrogen that are part of our galaxy. . Credit: R. Andreo . #milkyway #andromeda #vialactea #clouds #nuvens #localgroup #grupolocal #space #espaço #apod #astrogram #observatoriog1 #deepspace #espaçoprofundo #apod #hydrogen #hidrogênio #astrofotografia #astrophotography #longexposition #longaexposicao
Andromeda needs their beauty rest. Daniel Sakamoto-Wengel is our neighborhood Galaxy!
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Can't get over the cuteness of these hand knitted mini-jumpers by @withcherriesontoptoo Talent indeed at my #wireweknitting local knitting group . . #localgroup #knitting #meetup #community (at The Waiting Room)
l o c a l g r o u p
In 1925 astronomer Edwin Hubble made the observation that the universe is expanding. Galaxies are not moving through space, they are moving in space, because space is also moving. In other words, the universe has no center; everything is moving away from everything else. If you imagine a grid of space with a galaxy every million light years or so, after enough time passes this grid will stretch out so that the galaxies are spread to every two million light years, and so on, possibly into infinity.
One famous analogy to explain the expanding universe is imagining the universe like a loaf of raisin bread dough. As the bread rises and expands, the raisins move farther away from each other, but they are still stuck in the dough. In the case of the universe, there may be raisins out there that we can’t see any more because they have moved away so fast that their light has never reached Earth. Fortunately, gravity is in control of things at the local level and keeps our raisins together.
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Image: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/M. Mcdonald et Al. ; Optical: NASA/STScl