• @assassinatedbyCIA
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    3110 months ago

    Colliding with andromeda won’t do anything. Galaxies are almost all empty space.

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        510 months ago

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda–Milky_Way_collision#Fate_of_the_Solar_System

        Based on current calculations they predict a 50% chance that in a merged galaxy, the Solar System will be swept out three times farther from the galactic core than its current distance. They also predict a 12% chance that the Solar System will be ejected from the new galaxy sometime during the collision. Such an event would have no adverse effect on the system and the chances of any sort of disturbance to the Sun or planets themselves may be remote.

      • @rambaroo
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        210 months ago

        There are actually a bunch of stars that will pass by very close to the solar system in the far future (tens of thousands of years) and they could possibly increase the number of asteroid and comet impacts drastically.

    • @Magister
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      310 months ago

      But it will be beautiful to watch!!