A similar looking collision might be expected in a few billion years when our disk Milky Way Galaxy to collides with our large-disk galactic neighbor Andromeda (M31).
Look on the bright side. The sun will be a red giant and almost burned out anyway, along with the earth.
9 posted on 09/07/2021 4:42:02 PM PDT by seowulf
(Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)