“Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away…”

“Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away…” I chose an article from the SkyNews magazine from Nov- Dec 2001 describing the Andromeda Galaxy’s movement towards us (blue shift), as appose to most other galaxies and objects in the universe, who are moving away from us (red shift), all as a result of the expanding nature of our universe, and in this unique case- some gravity as well. The article gives a possible …

…perhaps merely get closer and closer in their gravitational orbits, until, when close enough in this ‘dance’, they will repel each other again, or slightly merge. The Andromeda galaxy proved to be more then just an example of blue shifted object. It helped explain one of the most fascinating phenomena in our life time- the concept of the big bang and the expanding universe. And it ended up being a galaxy not so far away…