Could We See the Edge of the Universe?

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if everything is receding from everything... how is it that our galaxy will eventually collide with the andromeda galaxy?
 
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Gravity is much stronger than the Hubble flow [expansion] at 'short' [less than megaparsec] distances. The proper motion of the Andromeda galaxy puts it on a collision course with our galaxy in about 5 billion years.
 

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