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Our galaxy is expanding and according to the cosmological principle, the further away a galaxy is the faster it is moving away. The galaxies are not getting further apart because they are moving through space but because space itself is expanding. Like raisins in rising dough. The raisins themsleves are not moving away from the other raisins but the dough itself is expanding, so every raisin sees the other raisins moving away from it.

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