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Originally Posted by TerryH View Post

Ironically, as the universe continues to expand, the spaces between galaxies are only getting larger. Our own Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across.
Space is expanding, but not all galaxies are moving farther apart.

In fact, the Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way Galaxy in 4 B years or so. Andromeda is much bigger and will probably just absorb the most of the Milky Way. There's a fair chance our solar system will remain intact as we're far enough from the center of the MW Galaxy.

And no... as someone said, the speed of light does NOT change just because the Universe is expanding. It's C, it's a Constant. Does NOT change.
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