It could set if a wave of supernovas, though, which would be bad for anything living in either galaxy. AFAIK our understanding of the process isn’t good enough to know.
Space is so vast that the Earth and Solar System will survive.
Although the galaxies will plow into each other, stars inside each galaxy are so far apart that they will not collide with other stars during the encounter. However, the stars will be thrown into different orbits around the new galactic center. Simulations show that our solar system will probably be tossed much farther from the galactic core than it is today. Source
Nah, we will build a stellar engine prior and move ourselves wherever we want. We will have colonized all the Milky Way and most of Andromeda. It’ll be like a brother and sister finally meeting near the washer.
We will have the collision with Andromeda Galaxy a few billion years before, so don’t worry :)
Colliding with andromeda won’t do anything. Galaxies are almost all empty space.
We’ll see.
No. We will not.
You won’t mortal
What if some alien civilization is watching the whole thing and taking bets
If they live for billions of years, I’d imagine our human evolution has happened so quickly to them, that they wouldn’t even realize we were here.
I imagine that they perceive time like we do, they’re just very patient.
Imagine if the last thing we saw before colliding with another planet was another alien race on that planet looking hopelessly right back at us.
But it will be beautiful to watch!!
It could set if a wave of supernovas, though, which would be bad for anything living in either galaxy. AFAIK our understanding of the process isn’t good enough to know.
Neat there’s even a video: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_collision
5 is a few
Space is so vast that the Earth and Solar System will survive.
The sun is also slowly increasing in energy output. Earth will be too hot for complex life to exist in about 800 million years.
Nah, we will build a stellar engine prior and move ourselves wherever we want. We will have colonized all the Milky Way and most of Andromeda. It’ll be like a brother and sister finally meeting near the washer.