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Description	This series of photo illustrations shows the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
Date	22 June 2012, 11:34:46
Source	http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/milky-way-collide.html
Author	Credit: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas, and A. Mellinger
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File change date and time	11:34, 22 June 2012
Exif version	2.2
Date and time of digitizing	10:30, 7 April 2011
Date metadata was last modified	13:30, 17 May 2012
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:F77F117407206811A7BAC3E2742F6BEB

File:Andromeda and Milky Way collision sequence.jpg

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