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Galactic Motion
Suggest how scientists may have determined that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are moving closer together.
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One way is detection of a Doppler blue shift of emission and absorption lines coming from stars in the galaxy (as opposed to the usual red shift of more distance galaxies)
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