Andromeda and the Milky Way: A Merger of Galactic Proportions

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9 pointsColdHawaiian4 comments

Url changed from http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000002906469/collidi..., which points to this. In general HN prefers text to video.

The original link suits me better, as I've hit the article limit. The video link works fine.

I see, thank you. I'm sorry that I forgot to put "[video]" in the original title too, but of course that doesn't matter anymore.

FWIW, this result came out in 2012[0,1]. This NYT piece seems like it's just trying to use the non-event of the Swift/BAT detection[2] in M31 with with some other random M31 information to make a story. Unfortunately, there's not any new information in this NYT piece.

[0] (Nature summary of results) http://www.nature.com/news/andromeda-on-collision-course-wit...

[1] (preprint of results) http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.6865

[2] http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5211327&cid=4710...

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