playful? I see mass destruction of many worlds. That brown cloud is dust from destroyed planets and stars.
“In space, no one can hear you scream.”
Like atoms, most of a galaxy is empty space. The distance between stars is so vast that individual stars and planets get through galactic mergers just fine.
That’s what I was wondering. I realize galaxies are mostly empty space. Even a solar system is mostly empty space. But when you put that many masses that close together... There have got to be some, maybe many(?) cataclysmic collisions. What would it be like for say a rocky Earth like planet to hit a gas giant? Or plunge into a star? Or two stars colliding??? I’ll never see it, but the energies involved...
” I see mass destruction of many worlds. That brown cloud is dust from destroyed planets and stars.”
As crazy as it may seem, the chances of any stars colliding from two merging galaxies is basically zero. That’s the incredible scale of distances we’re talking here.