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Simulations which map out the projected motion of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy predict they will collide and merge in about 5 billions years..


Also see sites: http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~dubinski/merger/bigmerger.html
and http://www.csc.fi/jpr/galaxy/bbang.html