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Super-high resolution image of Andromeda from Hubble (NASA/ESA): http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/...
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,661 posts)Says the Milky Way. Let's get together soon, ok?
JDDavis
(725 posts)a few billion more years, please.
And aren't they drifting apart? I can't remember.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,661 posts)to each other we will combine in a few million years. Should be a fantastic sight. Wish I could be around! Hey who knows?
Edited to add:
http://t.space.com/all/15947-milky-andromeda-galaxies-collision-simulated-video#1
JDDavis
(725 posts)I think that's an awfully short amount of time.
I had it in my mind that our sun would burn out and become a red giant or something before we collide with another galaxy. And I thought our sun was only about half to 3/4's way through it's life.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,661 posts)JDDavis
(725 posts)I only plan on living for a billion maybe billion and a half years, myself.
Just like most teenagers and young adults, right? (I won't tell you I'm over 60.)
Yes, I thought the sun was going to blow itself out in 2-3 billion years or so.
greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)Johnny Rash
(227 posts)There are so many Mysteries and Wonders awaiting, for us, out-there!
ffr
(22,665 posts)In a good way. Stunned really.
Our tiny brains need something like this to visualize the scale of millions and millions or billions and billions.