Is our galaxy really going to collide with Andromeda? 🤯
For years, astronomers believed the Milky Way and Andromeda were on a direct collision course in about 4.5 billion years. But new research using data from our Gaia mission and Hubble Space Telescope suggests the story isn’t so simple.
After running 100 000 simulations with the most precise data available, scientists now say there’s only a 50% chance the two galaxies will collide in the next 10 billion years.
The Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our satellite galaxies, could be tugging the Milky Way just enough to steer it away from Andromeda. Instead of crashing, the two galaxies might simply orbit each other in a slow cosmic dance.
So the fate of the Milky Way remains uncertain. And with the Sun expected to make Earth uninhabitable in about a billion years, a galaxy collision is low on our list of concerns.
📹 European Space Agency (ESA)
📸 NASA, ESA, STScI, Till Sawala (University of Helsinki), DSS, J. DePasquale (STScI)
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“If you’re worried, don’t be. The earth would’ve already been swallowed by the sun WAYYY before this”… gee, thanks for that 🙄😂😂😂
Only reason I wish to live forever is so I could see how it all ends. But im gonna need a fast forward option though. Im not doing it without fast forward.
So I should buy that new car now?
We will all be dust
Our star will die in 5 billion years, we got nothing to worry about
But sun will blowup into red giant 4 billion years later. So we do not need to wait for Andromeda to done this 😂
This galaxy cheating to humans after death.All religions are political parties in the unseen world Parliament. It's has been corrupted now. Because powers of darkness trinity have taken over the powers over there
Are you willing to put money on it? 😬
nice video but ur only for that purpose
A collision will wipe us out in a few billion years. Humans: hold my nuke.