clueplur:teachmehowtoglovie:dewogong:The collision between the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Ga
clueplur:teachmehowtoglovie:dewogong:The collision between the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy.welp, looks like we pretty fucked.facts about this: 1. it isn’t going to happen for a while2. we are actually going to survive this and the sky will look amazing that night scientist have predicted“Based on current calculations they [Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicists] predict a 50% chance that in a merged galaxy the solar system will be swept out three times farther from the galactic core than it is currently located.[1] They also predict a 12% chance that the Solar System will be ejected from the new galaxy some time during the collision.[8] Such an event would have no adverse effect on the system and chances of any sort of disturbance to the Sun or planets themselves may be remote.[8][9]Without intervention, by the time that the two galaxies collide, the surface of the Earth will have already become far too hot for liquid water to exist, ending all terrestrial life, which is currently estimated to occur in about 1.4 billion years due to gradually increasing luminosity of the Sun.[10][11]”– Wikipedia, with an amazing intergalactic weather report. Isn’t the scale of the universe a comforting thing? -- source link