On the one hand the Space is reported to be expanding and on the other hand the objects in the Universe are heading for collision by pulling each other because of their Gravitational pull.
Universe expands t the level of Space and the Objects are converging, becoming larger and thus relatively less in number.
Again new Stars are being born, thus increasing the numbers.
Totally contradicting in Nature for us to understand.
I am reminded of the Upanishad‘s Statements on Reality.
‘It is neither big nor small,It is neither tall nor short,It is everywhere, yet nowhere’
Sounded to me confusing.
What can I comprehend about these astronomical findings!
Only that Human mind can not comprehend Nature/Reality.
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NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
The Milky Way is destined to get a major makeover during the encounter, which is predicted to happen four billion years from now. It is likely the sun will be flung into a new region of our galaxy, but our Earth and solar system are in no danger of being destroyed.
“Our findings are statistically consistent with a head-on collision between the Andromeda galaxy and our Milky Way galaxy,” said Roeland van der Marel of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore.
The solution came through painstaking NASA Hubble Space Telescope measurements of the motion of Andromeda, which also is known as M31. The galaxy is now 2.5 million light-years away, but it is inexorably falling toward the Milky Way under the mutual pull of gravity between the two galaxies and the invisible dark matter that surrounds them both.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/milky-way-collide.html
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