23 Nov
2010
23 Nov
'10
10:34 p.m.
Found at this link http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/11/23/andromeda-born-out... new study by some French astronomers show that Andromeda went through a major merger about 6 billion years ago. The first link shows their model of this collision.The second part of the study (see this second link http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Major_Collision_In_Local_Galaxy_Cluster_Si...) shows that the Magellanic galaxies may actually have formed from the tidal tails that formed when M31 was formed. -- Jay Eads