Plot Twist! The Andromeda-Milky Way Merger Has Begun
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Published 2024-07-27
The collision of the Andromeda and the Milky Way Galaxy is set to be the most spectacular event in our galaxy’s history, and it has already begun. For the first time, astronomers have found evidence that the two galaxies have started exchanging stars, and the halo of the Andromeda galaxy is bumping into the Milky Way’s halo.
📝 REFERENCES:
On stellar migration from Andromeda to the Milky Way, Gülzow et al (2024), MNRAS - bit.ly/3xiii98
Project AMIGA: The Circumgalactic Medium of Andromeda, Lehner et al. (2020), The Astrophysics Journal - bit.ly/3AaHLCD
📝 SUGGESTED READINGS:
Are Andromeda and the Milky Way Already Exchanging Stars? (Mark Thompson, Universe Today) - bit.ly/3Wlo42C
Hubble Maps Giant Halo Around Andromeda Galaxy (NASA) - bit.ly/3A1LFhn
A New Dawn (NASA) - bit.ly/4fdRQ1M
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💻 Created and Produced by: Rishabh Nakra
✍🏻 Written by: Simran Buttar and Rishabh Nakra
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All Comments (21)
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Crap in two billion years. I’ve got a colonoscopy scheduled for that day.
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Hey Google, schedule this event to my calendar 😂
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I didn't believe the Andromeda Galaxy was merging with ours... and then it hit me...
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I am waiting for Betelgeuse to explode ..
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Luckily I wear a Meteor Proof Codpiece, for just such Emergencies…
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A collision between two galaxies! I can’t imagine what the deductible would be.
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Sagittarius Dwarf is already in the Milky Way galaxy-Earth is a result of the merger
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Anyone on earth at that time won’t even feel it. Will see the andromeda smudge getting bigger then starts disappearing as it gets closer because there is much more empty space than stars
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Wow!! Phenomena like these actually help boost our imagination as well, I mean, how else can we picture two colliding galaxies! Can't thank SOU enough for such episodes!! 🙏💫💯👏🌌❤️
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1billion years. added on my calender.
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man, when i was in school they said it was 100 billion stars, then it was 200, 300, now it's 400 billion. can't wait to hear one trillion in the near future.
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I will still be in line at the DMV.
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a few billion years? I might as well quit my job!
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Unlikely any stars will collide. Space is so huge its like mixing two gallons filled with a teaspoon of glitter each. The stars probably wont touch honestly.
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We better do something about it before it is too late!
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Yay cannot wait grabbing shades and a beer
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We need it. 🙄😆 She's really so different of us. 😂
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Ahhh... that's what's making my biorhythms out of whack! Bugger!
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I would worry about our star first, which is going to fry everything out to Mars, elementary school in the 50/60's😮
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Then it would become the milkydromeda galaxy ! 😛
