[PatrickHenry]

Someday our Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may come crashing together in a horrendous collision that will twist and distort their shapes beyond recognition.

I have enough to worry about already.

[Texaggie79]

Will it make me look thinner?

[longshadow]

Someday our Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may come crashing together in a horrendous collision that will twist and distort their shapes beyond recognition.

Any idea if the IRS will give us an extension to file our tax return when this happens?

[edwin hubble]

There are more likely things to worry about (than our sun hitting something).

Interesting that in a galaxy collision the galaxies can become distended or intertwined.
But star collisions during the process would be extremely rare. It's just statistically unlikely that stars would hit something.
If our sun were an orange in New York, then the nearest star would be an orange in Los Angeles. (for scale).
But two galaxies in scale might be more like two footballs eight to ten feet apart (Milky Way and Andromeda). So galaxy collisions are relatively common.