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A dwarf galaxy just might upend the Milky Way’s predicted demise

The Large Magellanic Cloud could prevent a smashup between the Milky Way and Andromeda

A bright cloud of cosmic material stretches across a dark void

There’s about a 50 percent chance that the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy will merge into a single giant galaxy, dubbed Milkomeda, in the next 10 billion years, a new analysis shows.

B. Whitmore/STScI, the Hubble Heritage Project, NASA, ESA

By Nikk Ogasa

It may come down to a coin toss as to whether the Milky Way collides with the Andromeda Galaxy within 10 billion years.