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TIL The Andromeda galaxy is the closest big galaxy to our Milky Way - located about 2.5 million light years from Earth. It is moving towards the Milky Way at a speed of 402,000 km/h. If nothing else happens, we expect a collision of two constellations in four billion years.

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