NASA Predicts Our Galaxy Will Collide With Another In 4 Billion Years

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Earth’s home, the Milky Way Galaxy, will collide with a nearby galaxy called Andromeda in 4 billion years, according to new observations made using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope announced Thursday.

“Our findings are statistically consistent with a head-on collision between the Andromeda galaxy and our Milky Way galaxy,” said Roeland van der Marel of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, in a press release.

Andromeda, which is located 2.5 million light-years away, is moving rapidly towards the Milky Way at a rate of 250,000 milers-per-hour, a clip that will only increase as the galaxies approach.

The great galactic union isn’t expected to result in the destruction of Earth, the Sun, or any other planet in the solar system. In fact, no stars whatsoever are expected to collide becauase they are so far apart within each system.

But because the Milky Way is flatter than Andromeda, when the two spiral-shaped galaxies collide, they’ll form a single new elliptical-shaped galaxy that is more “three dimensional” in shape, with the merging complete 6 billion years from now.

During the course of the collision and merging, Earth’s Sun, and our entire solar system, will be flung from its current position to a new position on the outer edge of the new galaxy.

[Confused 2 94]

Old, old prediction....

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Old, old prediction....

We're doomed. Nothing matters anymore.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

We're doomed. Nothing matters anymore.

I've got the cyanide capsules ready.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I've got the cyanide capsules ready.

But we'll miss football season.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

But we'll miss football season.

After 2 Super Bowl losses to the Giants, perhaps I'd be better off.

[Jamie and Sveta 18]

.... And we pay these people??? ?

[Ban Hammer 13,408]

We're doomed. Nothing matters anymore.

buy more ammo!

[웃 910]

We're doomed. Nothing matters anymore.

Don't worry, Yellowstone National Park is sitting on one of largest Super Volcanoes in the world, the Yellowstone Caldera.

It is due for a massive eruption every 600,000 years that would wipe out most of North America.

Last kaboom was 640,000 years ago so we are overdue. Probably will happen any day now, give or take 100,000 years.

[MyLittlePony 340]

No one should care we will all be gone when this happened.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

How is this possibly relevant to anyone. Humankind will have trashed this rock long before then.