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Galaxies in my braxer! An accumulation of unknown galaxies has captured our own Milky way with its gravity. Galaxies draw in the us and it is only a matter of time before we collide.
An accumulation of galaxies, a so-called superkluster, attracts our own galaxy, the Milky way, and several others. On the picture a so-called spiral galaxy.
In truth, it is not only the Milky way galaxy who is caught. The whole of the so-called Local group of galaxies, which the Milky way and about 40 other nearby galaxies are included, is moving on.
That the entire cluster moves out of the way, the scientists have known for a long time, but the cause has literally been shrouded in mystery since the gas and dust from our own galaxy, have obscured the visibility in the direction we are moving.
But with the help of the ten-metre South African Large Telescope now believe the scientists that for the first time managed to get a glimpse of what it is that draws in us. It turns out that it is – beyond our own galaxy, at about 800 million light-years away – is a “local giant”, a very massive accumulation of galaxies whose gravity is so great that it affects the entire Local group of galaxies.
The newly discovered backlog, as presented in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, has been named the Vela superkluster. Calculations show that we are approaching this giant cluster at a speed of 50 kilometers per second. But worry not. Travel time has been calculated for the entire 5 000 billion a year.
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