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Not all galaxies are moving away from each other. The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are moving towards each other (and at a pretty good clip, too: about 300 km/s). The entire "local group" of galaxies is moving in the general direction of something called the "Shapley Supercluster".

Very distant galaxies do tend to be moving away from each other, but that means the universe is expanding, not contracting.

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