"Milkomeda", as coined by TJ Cox and Abraham Loeb.It is (of course it is!) a delicious portmanteau of Milky Way (our home galaxy here on Heresy) and the Andromeda galaxy which is rapidly careening into us at breakneck spead. Eventually Andromeda will collide with the Milky Way and after some settling period, some casual dating on the galactic scene, they will merge into one ugly ass merged galaxy, hence "Milkomeda." As Phil Plait the brilliant Bad Astronomer says: "I suppose Andromeway sounded too much like the name of some sort pf pharmaceutical." I think it would sound more like a less harsh version of mace by which members of the male gender can be repelled ("Andro-away", no?).
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