Posted on 09/08/2024 12:26:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: The most distant object easily visible to the unaided eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy. Even at some two and a half million light-years distant, this immense spiral galaxy -- spanning over 200,000 light years -- is visible, although as a faint, nebulous cloud in the constellation Andromeda. A bright yellow nucleus, dark winding dust lanes, and expansive spiral arms dotted with blue star clusters and red nebulae, are recorded in this stunning telescopic image which combines data from orbiting Hubble with ground-based images from Subaru and Mayall. In only about 5 billion years, the Andromeda galaxy may be even easier to see -- as it will likely span the entire night sky -- just before it merges with, or passes right by, our Milky Way Galaxy.
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It seems like a train wreck waiting to happen. Maybe I will blow all of my savings on fun before it happens.
Galaxy collisions aren’t as bad as it sounds. It’s much worse when they explode.
I always hate when that happens.
It is always crash bing bang and someone has their cheeseburger land in the dirt.
Wikipedia has a cool video (that last about 90 seconds) showing what scientists think would happen when two galaxies “collide” or “interact” with one another.
While watching, remember that each galaxy is composed of billions of stars and the almost incomprehensible distances that the spiral arms are flung out as two of them pass through and eventually merge into one another:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interacting_galaxy
This beautiful "false color" picture makes it look like the top of a very large shake being made, French vanilla, strawberry, blueberry, and a few swirls of peach! (Yum!)
Word study....Greek word galaxias (γαλαξίας), literally means 'milky.
Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collision Simulated | Video
I wonder if it looks like that to a astronaut while in orbit..
By that time the Milky Way will have gone full Green Deal and be Zero Carbon.
Andromeda will pass on by and they will say “It used to be such a nice galaxy. It’s a shame what they did to it.”
Saw a NASA report a few years ago that said it will hit our Galaxy in a few million years if true will be one hell of a light show and no trace of us.
May have been live science or on like it?.
Light Show? Like never before.
Well, at least we have a few million years! Breathe easy and then.......
I’ll wait to see the beginnings of the collision and then make good my secret escape plans. There will be a trace of me but not traceable.
Got it?
There won’t be a trace of anything of us except the space ships we’ve sent into deep space and nobody will ever know where they cam from.
No.
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