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Weazy-N420 t1_j1llao3 wrote

Reply to comment by Aarcn in Is the Milky Way... Normal? by cciccitrixx

Not at all!! The distances are so vast and gravity being, well gravity, there probably won’t be any collisions at all, just a seamless merger. Like a Galactic Zipper. We will combine like Voltron to form a bigger Galaxy. Bet it’s going to be amazing. Imagine the night sky when Andromeda is lighting it up!

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Nano_Burger t1_j1lv2bn wrote

I nominate Voltron as the name of the new galaxy. Milkdromada or Androway just won't have the gravitas that will frighten away extragalactic invaders.

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RaynOfFyre1 t1_j1mh0qc wrote

“Do you know what gravitas sounds like? Greetings. All.”

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KeithWorks t1_j1middl wrote

The invaders will already be here, in our own new Voltron galaxy

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floydink t1_j1midl8 wrote

Figure it’ll just turn into the “milky andromeda way”

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RustyShackleford131 t1_j1m9eij wrote

I’ve seen some artists rendering of what it will look like at various points in time and it makes me said I won’t be around to see it. Before they start actually merging you would be able to see andromeda in its entirety in the sky.

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amitym t1_j1mgh2u wrote

"...the sombre hues of that all-but-eternal universe may be full of colour and beauty to whatever strange beings have adapted to it. ... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of creation; for we knew the universe when it was young."

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schmokeabutt t1_j1mfscx wrote

So, as I understand it the collision of the galaxy will ultimately sling some stars into space without a galaxy home. With Earth and our sun suspected of being closer to the tip of one of the spirals, what are chances we get flung off into deep space?

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