We're screwed, but the nighttime view will be spectacular.
Posted on 06/06/2022 1:36:10 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Will our Milky Way Galaxy collide one day with its larger neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy? Most likely, yes. Careful plotting of slight displacements of M31's stars relative to background galaxies on recent Hubble Space Telescope images indicate that the center of M31 could be on a direct collision course with the center of our home galaxy. Still, the errors in sideways velocity appear sufficiently large to admit a good chance that the central parts of the two galaxies will miss, slightly, but will become close enough for their outer halos to become gravitationally entangled. Once that happens, the two galaxies will become bound, dance around, and eventually merge to become one large elliptical galaxy -- over the next few billion years. Pictured here is a combination of images depicting the sky of a world (Earth?) in the distant future when the outer parts of each galaxy begin to collide. The exact future of our Milky Way and the entire surrounding Local Group of Galaxies is likely to remain an active topic of research for years to come.
(Excerpt) Read more at apod.nasa.gov ...
Well, Laz, I finally admit you are. If all the dumb things don’t get you, God is going to collide us into another galaxy.
And the amazing part is that the vast, vast, vast majority of celestial bodies in both galaxies will never collide with any other.
God is infinitely awesome!
(in a galactically relative manner)
There goes the neighborhood.
Won’t happen soon enough to save us from Biden.
We’re heading towards the Andromeda Galaxy at a speed of about 400,000 mph but it’s going to be a long, long time before it happens.
None of us will be here when it does.
No. I wouldn’t do that if I were you.
Was that billions...or millions?
What do you get when two large areas of mostly empty space collide?
One area of slighty less empty space.
It’s because the milky way sucks.😁
....and climate change and greedy corporations and guns and racism...
Something like 2.5 to 4.5 Billions of years away!
Almost as scary as the global warming!
The galaxies are about 2.5 millions of light years apart right now.
But, apparently, our outer realms are about touching right now. Nothing, but few atoms orbiting each galaxy million light years away.
So AOC should start making some fuzz about it! We have only 10 years to save the Earth!
A collision like that sure will melt your ice caps.
>Milky Way Galaxy Doomed: Collision with Andromeda Pending
>>We’re screwed, but the nighttime view will be spectacular
In six billion years our sun will become a white dwarf after going through a red giant phase, turning earth into a burning cinder.
Note: this simulation matches observations of colliding galaxies but dark matter (a fudge factor) is needed to make the simulation work. In 1966 Arp published his catalog of peculiar galaxies and made the assertion that these galaxies were interacting. The “scientific community” rejected his claim but Arp was right all along.
Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts. Richard Feynman
Where’s Greta when we need her?
Has Al Gore or the Obama’s bought a mansion near the edge of the galaxy?
Quick Democrats, spend money to fix this disaster. Yes, it is Trump’s fault and is caused by CLIMATE Change, so we need money to help our milky way...
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