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Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are surprisingly rare. Astronomers may finally know why.

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Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are surprisingly rare. Astronomers may finally know why.

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[email protected]English • 1 year ago

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The Supergalactic Plane we are located in doesn't have many spiral galaxies like the Milky Way. Astronomers think they finally know why galaxies like ours are so rare.

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… So that infamous impending collision with Andromeda will take our spirals away?!

(Impending in a cosmological sense, so several million years at least IIRC)
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  Thousands of millions of years I think, and continuing for at least hundreds of millions before the bouncing stops
  
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