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Even at closest approach, there won't be any appreciable change in the night sky over a human lifetime. Note that in the gallery at the bottom of http://www.nas
by scatters 10y ago
Even at closest approach, there won't be any appreciable change in the night sky over a human lifetime. Note that in the gallery at the bottom of http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/milky-way-collide.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/milky-way-c... the shortest time between frames is still 50 million years.
- lisper 10y agoFrom the original article: " it will take 4 billion years before the strike. ... it will take an additional two billion years after the encounter for the interacting galaxies to completely merge" Also, it's important to keep in mind that galaxies have a pretty low density. If you shrank the sun down to the size of a ping pong ball, earth would be a poppy seed about 10 feet away. Proxima centauri, the nearest star, would be 500 miles away.