Deep Learning Aids Astronomers Studying Galaxies NVIDIA Blog

The Milky Way is on a collision course with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. But no need to revise your will -- the two star systems won't meet for around 4 billion years. "At some point in every galaxy's life, it'll undergo one of these mergers," said William Pearson, Ph.D. student at the Netherlands Institute for Space Research and the University of Groningen, Netherlands. "It's part of our understanding of how we think the universe works. These galaxies tend to find and crash into each other."