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 Our galaxy1 is rushing toward the great galaxy Andromeda, they are rushing toward each other. And they are going to encounter each other in a couple billion years. 

 
Abraham and his colleagues decide to try to simulate this clash of the Titans.
 
This was the first relation of the sky. Initially2, the two galaxies3 plunge4 through each other, producing these beautiful tails of stars due to the force of gravity. They run away, turn around and come back together to make one big spheroid of stars, which I called the Nicomedia Galaxy.
 
The merger6 of the Milky7 Way and Andromeda galaxies, they are coming together of almost a trillion stars. 
 
The beautiful spiral structure of our Milky Way galaxies not something that is going to last forever, it's going to be a mass for a while. The collision will not be one in which these two things are destroyed, but this one where the gas in each system will collide with the gas in the other that little have a birth of star formation. 
 
And the formation of these new stars will mark the rebirth of a new galaxy. 
 
This spectacular Hubble image shows the antenna8 galaxies, a grand cosmic collision between two spiral star cities. The galaxies are undergoing a frenzy9 of star birth, visible as a multitude of brilliantly illuminated10 pink nebulae, a final flare11 of stellar activity before the galaxies merge5 to become one. This is the fate that awaits our Milky Way when it merges12 with Andromeda three billion years from now. 
 
When they collide, there will be a lot of new star formation that takes place. There will be a kind of rejuvenation13 of the Milky Way for a little while and then eventually this combined system was settled down to become a new thing, probably a bigger galaxy than either of the galaxies…..

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1 galaxy OhoxB     
n.星系；银河系；一群(杰出或著名的人物)
参考例句：
  • The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
  • The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。
2 initially 273xZ     
adv.最初，开始
参考例句：
  • The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
  • Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
3 galaxies fa8833b92b82bcb88ee3b3d7644caf77     
星系( galaxy的名词复数 )； 银河系； 一群（杰出或著名的人物）
参考例句：
  • Quasars are the highly energetic cores of distant galaxies. 类星体是遥远星系的极为活跃的核心体。
  • We still don't know how many galaxies there are in the universe. 我们还不知道宇宙中有多少个星系。
4 plunge 228zO     
v.跳入，(使)投入，(使)陷入；猛冲
参考例句：
  • Test pool's water temperature before you plunge in.在你跳入之前你应该测试水温。
  • That would plunge them in the broil of the two countries.那将会使他们陷入这两国的争斗之中。
5 merge qCpxF     
v.(使)结合，(使)合并，(使)合为一体
参考例句：
  • I can merge my two small businesses into a large one.我可以将我的两家小商店合并为一家大商行。
  • The directors have decided to merge the two small firms together.董事们已决定把这两家小商号归并起来。
6 merger vCJxG     
n.企业合并，并吞
参考例句：
  • Acceptance of the offer is the first step to a merger.对这项提议的赞同是合并的第一步。
  • Shareholders will be voting on the merger of the companies.股东们将投票表决公司合并问题。
7 milky JD0xg     
adj.牛奶的，多奶的；乳白色的
参考例句：
  • Alexander always has milky coffee at lunchtime.亚历山大总是在午餐时喝掺奶的咖啡。
  • I like a hot milky drink at bedtime.我喜欢睡前喝杯热奶饮料。
8 antenna QwTzN     
n.触角，触须；天线
参考例句：
  • The workman fixed the antenna to the roof of the house.工人把天线固定在房顶上。
  • In our village, there is an antenna on every roof for receiving TV signals.在我们村里，每家房顶上都有天线接收电视信号。
9 frenzy jQbzs     
n.疯狂，狂热，极度的激动
参考例句：
  • He was able to work the young students up into a frenzy.他能激起青年学生的狂热。
  • They were singing in a frenzy of joy.他们欣喜若狂地高声歌唱。
10 illuminated 98b351e9bc282af85e83e767e5ec76b8     
adj.被照明的；受启迪的
参考例句：
  • Floodlights illuminated the stadium. 泛光灯照亮了体育场。
  • the illuminated city at night 夜幕中万家灯火的城市
11 flare LgQz9     
v.闪耀，闪烁；n.潮红；突发
参考例句：
  • The match gave a flare.火柴发出闪光。
  • You need not flare up merely because I mentioned your work.你大可不必因为我提到你的工作就动怒。
12 merges a03f3f696e7db24b06d3a6b806144742     
（使）混合( merge的第三人称单数 )； 相融； 融入； 渐渐消失在某物中
参考例句：
  • The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". 2012年诺贝尔文学奖得主为莫言，他“很好地将魔幻现实与民间故事、历史与当代结合在一起”。
  • A device that collates, merges, or matches sets of punched cards or other documents. 一种整理、合并或比较一组穿孔卡片或其它文档的设备。
13 rejuvenation b9e42846611643c4db26fc856328d569     
n. 复原，再生, 更新, 嫩化, 恢复
参考例句：
  • Prolonged starvation and aging might lead to rejuvenation of embryogenic potential. 长期的饥饿和衰老可以导致胚胎发生能力的复壮。
  • All this signs rejuvenation of agriculture. 所有这些都预示着农业将复苏。

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