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RustyShackleford131 t1_j1m9eij wrote

Reply to comment by Weazy-N420 in Is the Milky Way... Normal? by cciccitrixx

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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