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The Andromeda Galaxy was formed as the result of a massive collision involving two separate galaxies that occurred billions of years ago, an international team of researchers has discovered.The astronomers, led by Francois Hammer of the Paris Observatory, conducted complex computer simulations of the galaxy's structural formation, both in France and at the National Astronomical Observatory of China (NAOC). They then analyzed the results and prepared a study, which has been published in the...
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François Félix Tisserand was born on January 13, 1845 at Nuits-Saint-Georges, Côte d'Or. He went to Ecole Normale Superieure in 1863. He received a professorship at the lycee at Metz upon his departure from the Ecole Normale Superieure. He left the lycee after a month to accept a position as an astronome adjoint at the Paris Observatory in September 1866. On August 18, 1868 he went to Malacca to study the solar eclipse. Five years later, in 1873, he became director of the...
