The Andromeda Galaxy sedan with 310.69 miles per hour on us to. These collisions are not uncommon. But it takes another three billion years don't have to worry and it is likely only to a few collisions.
@iluvvmx1977, If not sure you understand what a theory means in a scientific context. People usually think it means a mere guess and something unproven, when in fact a scientific theory is something that very well proven and is generally accepted as something being true.
Even though the galaxies collide, what are the chances that any two stars collide when they first hit each other? The actual "collission" affect shown in the video is all the affects of gravity but it doesn't necessarily mean anything touched anything else. The amount of space in between stars and planets is still incomprehensible compared to the amount of matter. So it's possible that through the first pass no stars collided. How would I be able to calculate those odds??
All these people that think they know what will happen when our galaxies collide are fucking morons!! how the fuck would you know?. 'stars wont collide because they have gravity', 'planets will stay in orbit'. what a load of horse shit!!. billions of stars cannot merge together without some colliding!! its fucking common sense. I would like to know when the last time someone was in a galaxy that collided, oh that's right, NEVER !!!!!
@iluvmx1977 The Milky Way Galaxy is colliding with Canis Major as we speak. There have been several collisions in the past with Sagittarius as well which astronomers believe probably formed the spiral arm structure of our galaxy.
It's true there will likely be maybe a few collisions, but in the end it makes no difference. The Earth will not be habitable by the time this happens anyways.
@Ahuc899 Ok, but these galaxies are very small and its more like the milky way swallowing them up rather than a collision. Two large galaxies of equal size would surely be a different situation!. because of the size and distance involved collisions could be tens of thousands even millions of years apart. I accept that not all stars would collide or be severely disrupted but surely they would come close enough for major upsets and some collisions would be inevitable.
@Ahuc899 I fully understand that humans will not be around for this event, our own sun could possible be exhausted by this time anyway. when we look out at the universe (or the tiny part visible to us) we only really see it in a static state due to the incomprehensible size and distance. my point is that even the entire history of human astronomy is insignificant to the idea of infinite time. we have seen nothing and honestly know very little, that was my point.
@iluvmx1977 Just because we don't see these events through to their conclusions doesn't mean we can't make predictions. Either way, we can see images of galaxies colliding through various stages of collisions in other galaxies. We also have a decent understanding of many of the physical laws. It's not unreasonable to be able to make predictions.
By the way, collisions are unlikely because if the Sun were the size of a basketball, the nearest star would be roughly 30,000km away.
@Ahuc899 I agree with what you are saying about predictions and with the scale of distance you are talking about but the sheer mathematical odds of billions of stars getting jumbled together and a claim that no two stars will collide is absurd. I am not stupidly thinking that all stars will smash together but do believe that a great number but tiny percentage will. It could be one every thousand years for 2 million years! we have only been star gazing with technical equipment for a few hundred.
@Ahuc899 I also don't believe that we can see two large galaxies colliding that are close enough to see if there are interstellar collisions or not. although you seem to think that a lot is known about the physical make up of our universe I beg to differ and say that we really know less than a fraction of the tiniest part. we are not sure about the start, the end, the edge or if it has one, the make up, the physics or fabrics of our universe. we will never even know if its the only universe!!.
@Ahuc899 If predictions help us sleep at night then I am all for it, but I doubt that in our lifetime we will ever reveal or understand this inconceivably massive and unimaginably complicated dimension that Humans call the universe. It is awesome beyond explanation and may only serve mankind as a subject of great frustration, confusion, imagination and conversation. I believe that interstellar travel for humans is unachievable and that mankind will perish before even leaving our solar system
It's true that we'll probably never completely understand the entirety of the universe, but that doesn't mean we can't make predictions based on what we DO understand. Do you sleep well at night knowing there's nuclear power plants all over the Earth and the only thing stopping them from all melting down is based upon our incomplete understanding about how atoms behave?
We can see galaxies colliding without many collisions.. We can measure the distance between stars and see why.
@Ahuc899 Mankind has many problems to solve here on earth before 'Dreaming' about the stars. There are so many unknown things about planet earth and our own beginnings and we can study that physically, what chance do we have of knowing the universe's secrets when its out of reach?. Back to my point, we know very little. Even the visible universe is not even 'Real', it is simply light that left those objects sometimes millions of years ago. the sheer distances are mind blowing.
@Ahuc899 The prediction that our galaxy will collide with Andromeda is based on little more than the dopler effect, the actual movement cannot be visually seen. the light we are looking at from andromeda is ancient. we cant even see where this galaxy is at this present moment, its actually closer than it appears. how much closer? no one knows. even the distances are based on theory, I know we are supposed to believe that these scientific astronomers know how to calculate but how accurate is it?
@Ahuc899 Its not like we can throw a tape measure out there and measure. the measurements are purely based upon the the intensity of the light that reaches us. I am very inclined to believe that these measurements are very educated guess work. no doubt the distances are HUGE but how accurate are they? Is these objects movement constant or accelerating?who really knows? we are told that the universe is expanding yet two galaxies are heading towards each other? NO ONE REALLY KNOWS JUST GUESS'S
@iluvmx1977 It's still possible that even though the Universe is expanding, things of that size can still collide. Gravity changes the directions of objects all the time.
@FlargidyTV In an infinate universe there are infinate possibilities. I understand this but my comments are directed towards people who assume that the Human race knows so much about these matters because of the bullshit and lies that we have been force fed as truth. Research the truth about our knowledge of gravitational pull alone, you will find that scientists still know very little about it. 'bending space fabric' that's their theory at the moment. that's right !! THEORY!!!
@iluvmx1977 What lies has science force fed us as truth? Many things in science are explained as theory or speculation. Such as the string theory, which is one possibility that has received a lot of attention because it is backed up with math. And the theory of dark matter that would help to explain why objects in space are positioned the way they are.
@FlargidyTV String theory! you said it. a theory is not a proven fact, nothing more than an idea. explained is also different to proven. String theory has the same place as plate tectonics, the primordial swamp and many other theories!!. school curriculum is still force feeding these scientific theories as fact. I am not religious either and think that religions are nothing more than bed time stories. believe what you like, it makes no difference anyway!
Even when the collision happens, our Solar System would just move locations, nothing would happen, except our night sky would have a very different appearance. Astronomers believe that stars will just move past each other, not really harming one another.
@haleygoeswhoohoo If you think about it, not really.. The Sun is just moving, and there is no other star close enough to pull the planets in another direction, they'd just stay in orbit. Kind of like when Earth moves, the Moon is still circling it.
A complete annihilation of all life in over 1,400 BILLION (1,400,000,000,000) stellar systems between 2 super massive galaxies and their many hundred associated dwarf galaxies...
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A complete intergalactic purge of all organic matter In the most unfathomable way and this guy says "Cool!" ...
There's currently several small galaxies "colliding" with the Milky Way. This really isn't that big of a deal in terms of whether or not we'll survive. In fact the only negative is that most models project we'll be thrown out farther away from the core, meaning less nearby start to emigrate to. We won't be able to live on Earth in 1.4 billions years anyway so we'll have to get moving.
@Ahuc899 Is there??? which ones?? I have never heard about it, are you gifted with more knowledge than every astronomer on the planet?? please explain!!
@iluvmx1977 No, I just know how to perform a bit of routine research. Look up Canis Major galaxy which is currently colliding with the Milky Way, or Saggitarius galaxy, who's past collisions with the Milky Way are suspected to have created the arm structures of the galaxy.
So because you've never heard about it, the information must be unknown to all astronomers on the planet? That's quite a claim.
Our sun is part of the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy (Sag DEG) which is breaking apart as its being gobbled by the Milky Way, around which it is in a polar orbit. The Milky Way is eating TONS of smaller Galaxies right now, and I can see it's perfectly capable of consuming much bigger ones too. DAMN this Galaxy is greedy!
It is estimated that the Andromeda galaxy contains approximately 1 trillion stars (1,000,000,000,000) whereas the Milky way contains 200 to 400 Billion. Yes indeed there will be collisions as the gravity of large celestial bodies such as the stars themselves, draw them together. Therefore their orbiting satellite (eg any orbiting planets, comet, asteroids will also be drawn in. There is plenty of space for near misses so not all bodies will collide.
Humorously, you are hearing the word "collision" and thinking it means smashing together. The space between individual stars is gargantuan. Maybe 1 or 2 near-direct collisions between stars will occur during the entire merging of the two galaxies. Furthermore, even mid-collision, ~3 billion years hence, Andromeda won't seem to be moving in the sky. It will seem just as frozen in place as it does now. And most people can't even see our own Milky Way due to light pollution... :P
@eusouobservador The collision is in 3 billion years not 10..HUGE difference and if they collide we wont be destroyed..we'll just be in a larger galaxy with a shit load of new planets lol
@snowman2149 This is true. However, in 1.5 billion years the earth's temperature will be to hot for water to exist. Thus ending all life on our planet.
@eusouobservador 10 billion years? If it's in 10 billion years, the sun would had already gone red giant, engulfed earth, and dissipated! I doubt even if you could live 10 billion years you'd survive something like that.
All over the earth Science and Religion have been 'enemies' for a long while. They can be seen as the 2 galaxies on collision course. One galaxy is called Hinduism and the other Science. Vaishnavites, Shivaites, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs etc. are like the planets and stars etc. of Hinduism Galaxy.
Astro-physics, Atomic-physics, Quantum-physics etc. are in turn the planets and stars etc. of the Science Galaxy.
Eventually Science and Religion will merge and will result in true enlightenment.
@GGXXD1 Shame you are unable to understand the similarity between the two, Science and Hinduism. Google 'Quantum entanglement'. While you are at it search for 'Dark matter'. Oh! yes do not forget 'Dark Energy'. What forces created the galaxies you see here, in the first place?
@GGXXD1 Sorry forgot. 'shit' or manure goes to give the best fruit and veg if added to the soil at the right time. Perhaps you too are into some form of gardening. It's very relaxing too.
Nothing actually collides in a galactic collision. Galaxies are almost all empty space. There is virtually no threat at all. Please stop spreading the ignorance by posting "oh noez, humanity is gonna die!". If it isn't a threat to whoever is going to be around 5 billion years from now when it happens, it sure as hell isn't going to be a threat to humanity. The Earth won't even be habitable 5 billion years from now due to the expansion of our Sun.
@GGXXD1 I already pointed out that the Earth wouldn't even be habitable by the time of the collision and even if that wasn't the case there still wouldn't be humans because it is impossible for a species to last 5 billion years without evolving into countless different forms over that time.
@gogators432 wrong, 3 - 5 billion years... but the earth is killed way before we even starts to swirl with the Andromeda cause of the sun puffing out it's outer shell or layer, destroying or incinerating inner planets.
Both black holes will start to suck each other, since milky way black hole has much more force, it will suck in andromeda's black hole faster, making it a collision with a huge supernove, after some time, the supernova, or what's left of it, will be sucked in by the new born huge black hole, with most of andromeda's stars and planets, we are on the further shape, basically, sun and we will be thrown out a bit further or sucked in a bit closer. Yeah, we will survive, but this will hapen NOT soon
@DrKremlin Our sun probably be only a dwarf star when this happens... We will either get the heck of this galaxy or kill each other for territory, for example world war 3, but i don't see it coming personally :O
If we were to be alive whilst this happened would it be a worldwide event where every one has large foam fingers, air horns and vuvuzuelas, chanting on the Milky Way?
We wouldn't be able to call ourselves humans when this happens. I wonder how many evolutionary stagers would we progress through? Life began on earth from a self sustainable replicating chemical structure about 500 million years after the earth was formed. Imagine what life, (not on earth no more, too hot) would be like in 5 billion years.
@kkksskkk This would take a long time . And it would not be like the Sci-Fi movie . It would appear as if it is in slow motion . This collision process may take millions or even billions of years .
@EmperorMeowMeow It would probably be like sci fi movies to many individual planets and stars I think, I mean all of them are not gonna just pass unscathed. I just thought the process would be so lengthy that we won't ever have to worry about anything like this.
@kkksskkk billions of years, but by then mankind would be dead. Since this is thought to happen millions from years from now, mankind would be unexistant since due to the steadily increasing temperature of the sun, water would be too hot to sustain life by then and mankind would perish. soo yes;) we do NOT need to worry about this.
Does somebody knows the name of the software used to do such animation?. Maybe I won't know how to use it at first glance, maybe I won't have enough scientific knowledge. But.... it's amazing to simulate the universe! So come on...
@ineedaname7777777 wow, i'm suprised no-one ever thought of that. forget stephen hawking, lets stick you in a wheelchair and have you educate us all on the cosmos
Well what I learned from Astronomy is that everything in space is moving forward. So does that mean that the Milky Way Galaxy is moving slower than Andromeda?
even scientists and astronomers don't know for certain, but they theorize that a bigger black hole will be formed, as for our solar system, it will simply coast to andromeda,
@selearemus It's difficult to measure what happens when black holes collide. If their cyclical rotation is similar, it is entirely possible that they merely merge and become an even more supermassive black hole. It is also very possible that the two black holes (both unable to consume each other) will be repulsed with an expulsion of energy thousands of times greater than our sun emits. (Think of pressing two negative magnets together, but multiplied infinite times.)
One thing that bugs me is, I want to know how is it possible that we even know what our neighboring galaxies are since we are taking photographs from INSIDE the milky way....
wasnt there a spotnik satellite that is out there that isnt even close to leaving the milky way? i dunno this whole milky way is going to collide seems too far fetched from the start
@DarkDragon187II All such things being calculated based on data collevted monitoring different objects moving it the universe. Telescopes, computers and such. And no, there's too large distances between us and the closest spot you are talking about. All about calculations for like... 50 years, for sure.
Well, that's 3 billion. In one billion years, the sun will start its red giant fase, and burn everything to a crisp. If we are still alive and/or still in the Sol system, better make, say Eris, the new refuge. The sun will swallow the blue pearl eventually but the habitable zone will shift, making Kuiper Belt objects melt and creating water in the (former) outer solar system. But I'm sure we'll go the dino way before that ;-)
The collision process shown here will actually take several hundred million years to unfold, and will only happen some 3 billion years from now. By that time we will have long been gone.
1. Not sure it will happen. Scientists still don't have enough information about speeds and routes of the galaxies. However they hope to discover it next year (2011).
2. If it will happen, it will be 5 billion years from now. Till then our Earth will be swallowed by the growing Sun.
3. Galaxies collision will not cause the collision of the stars within them. Stars take less than 0.5% of the place in galaxies so the chance of stars collision is very small.
Actually even if this does happen, Earth will probably be swallowed up by our sun along with Mercury and Venus due to the fact that the sun will grow large and become a red giant and if Earth doesn't get swallowed it's still doomed anyway. Earth's surface will become way to hot for water to exist because of the thus ending terrestrial life. Also humans will already be extinct when it happens. But hey that's all going to happen in about 4.5 billion years. So don't worry. :)
@MysticMelodyFlute but it would be kinda cool if earth could get knocked out from sun's orbit, but also very sad. aw dont say that^^ i bet we somehow gonna find a way to survive earth and move to a new home.
Well I think the chances of humans surviving is slim but technology is still advancing so it's possible that human beings could be so advanced by then that they could leave the planet and find another place to live on. =P
@SunriseFestival Scientists say that the entire solar system will be flung deep into space when Andromeda and the Milky Way collide. When this occurs, I'm guessing that all the planets and the Sun will separate farther apart from each other. If Earth is much farther from the Sun, life would cease to exist. So yeah, it would also be the end of the human race... FOREVER.
No scientists say that. You made that up and you're incorrect. See my other post. Also, the Sun won't become a Red Giant for another 5 to 6 billion years, however, well before that, it will heat up due to the shrinking of its core due to the helium it has already fused. In approximately 1 billion years the Sun will be hot enough to boil off Earth's oceans. Mars, however, will warm up.
@Username93611 How do you know scientists don't say that? You've listened to every scientist on Earth?? Even if they didn't, it COULD happen. People don't know EXACTLY what will happen when the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy will collide, it's impossible to tell.
But I did hear a scientist say that the solar system will plunge deep into space, I think it was on a video called: The Future of the Milky Way 8/11
I know because I read current Astronomical society publications and have actually studied astronomy, cosmology, physics, and furthermore, I understand on even the most base of levels, the structure of the galaxy, which you apparently don't. The person you got that idea from clearly doesn't either, and thus, is clearly not a "scientist." There are people with degrees in physical sciences. When they spout gibberish and ignore the scientific method, they lose the "scientist" title.
@fishhead06 it depends...as long you are up to date with payments,your insurance company will cover all your ailments..(but not including loss of life,galactic devastation,deadly black hole(collision) radiation discharges,possible level 5 extinction event etc.)
The fate of the Earth and the Solar System in the event of a collision (in 4.5 billion years time) are currently unknown. If the galaxies do not merge, there is a chance that the Solar System could be ejected from the Milky Way or join Andromeda.
The funny thing is some are speculating recently about us not even belonging to Milky way originally, there's a possibility the solar system, originally from the dwarf galaxy sagittarius, has ben incorporated into milky way during a galactic fest.
According to some research, by the time the Andromeda galaxy and the Milky way Galaxy collide, the surface of the earth will already be way too hot for living things due to the increasing of the suns temperature.
@Tamarulyn Of course long before then humans will be advanced lifeforms living in machines. The downloading of the human brain (as a simulation) on to computers is probably only 50-100 years away at most, i.e. immortality. So we might be around in some form... but probably not human. Never say never.
At least you're being positive. I personally wouldn't hold my breath. People way back not too long ago though that by now we would be driving flying cars and living on the moon.
What if earth and humanity survives? We cud get a spectacualer view in to the skies! :D
freshnaked 1 day ago
that'll do for my school project
TraviansLittleHelpe 3 days ago
the distances between each star is so massive, nothing would actually 'collide'. the two would swirl through each other like a gas.
Autonova 1 week ago
hey...who let the tree hugger in here....?
BrodeFinePortraiture 1 month ago
We will fit the MW with a steering wheel by then anyway...no worries eh
BrodeFinePortraiture 1 month ago
Man survived that longer than you can wrap your head around. It has and it is always getting better.
boulaajaj 1 month ago
Had a question, does the simulation considers the mass of dark matter halos surrounding the galaxies?
stiivensigal 1 month ago
Super Galaxy!!!
tedwilli9 1 month ago
@tedwilli9 *mario music plays*
JsKingBoo 1 month ago
The Andromeda Galaxy sedan with 310.69 miles per hour on us to. These collisions are not uncommon. But it takes another three billion years don't have to worry and it is likely only to a few collisions.
WasserKaiser 2 months ago
What is this process actually called?
McMeevin 2 months ago
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fredrikbonde70 2 months ago
@iluvvmx1977, If not sure you understand what a theory means in a scientific context. People usually think it means a mere guess and something unproven, when in fact a scientific theory is something that very well proven and is generally accepted as something being true.
fredrikbonde70 2 months ago
Even though the galaxies collide, what are the chances that any two stars collide when they first hit each other? The actual "collission" affect shown in the video is all the affects of gravity but it doesn't necessarily mean anything touched anything else. The amount of space in between stars and planets is still incomprehensible compared to the amount of matter. So it's possible that through the first pass no stars collided. How would I be able to calculate those odds??
FlargidyTV 2 months ago
Wow!
MrLeeTbagger 2 months ago
All these people that think they know what will happen when our galaxies collide are fucking morons!! how the fuck would you know?. 'stars wont collide because they have gravity', 'planets will stay in orbit'. what a load of horse shit!!. billions of stars cannot merge together without some colliding!! its fucking common sense. I would like to know when the last time someone was in a galaxy that collided, oh that's right, NEVER !!!!!
iluvmx1977 2 months ago
@iluvmx1977 The Milky Way Galaxy is colliding with Canis Major as we speak. There have been several collisions in the past with Sagittarius as well which astronomers believe probably formed the spiral arm structure of our galaxy.
It's true there will likely be maybe a few collisions, but in the end it makes no difference. The Earth will not be habitable by the time this happens anyways.
Ahuc899 2 months ago
@Ahuc899 Ok, but these galaxies are very small and its more like the milky way swallowing them up rather than a collision. Two large galaxies of equal size would surely be a different situation!. because of the size and distance involved collisions could be tens of thousands even millions of years apart. I accept that not all stars would collide or be severely disrupted but surely they would come close enough for major upsets and some collisions would be inevitable.
iluvmx1977 2 months ago
@Ahuc899 I fully understand that humans will not be around for this event, our own sun could possible be exhausted by this time anyway. when we look out at the universe (or the tiny part visible to us) we only really see it in a static state due to the incomprehensible size and distance. my point is that even the entire history of human astronomy is insignificant to the idea of infinite time. we have seen nothing and honestly know very little, that was my point.
iluvmx1977 2 months ago
@iluvmx1977 Just because we don't see these events through to their conclusions doesn't mean we can't make predictions. Either way, we can see images of galaxies colliding through various stages of collisions in other galaxies. We also have a decent understanding of many of the physical laws. It's not unreasonable to be able to make predictions.
By the way, collisions are unlikely because if the Sun were the size of a basketball, the nearest star would be roughly 30,000km away.
Ahuc899 2 months ago
@Ahuc899 I agree with what you are saying about predictions and with the scale of distance you are talking about but the sheer mathematical odds of billions of stars getting jumbled together and a claim that no two stars will collide is absurd. I am not stupidly thinking that all stars will smash together but do believe that a great number but tiny percentage will. It could be one every thousand years for 2 million years! we have only been star gazing with technical equipment for a few hundred.
iluvmx1977 2 months ago
@Ahuc899 I also don't believe that we can see two large galaxies colliding that are close enough to see if there are interstellar collisions or not. although you seem to think that a lot is known about the physical make up of our universe I beg to differ and say that we really know less than a fraction of the tiniest part. we are not sure about the start, the end, the edge or if it has one, the make up, the physics or fabrics of our universe. we will never even know if its the only universe!!.
iluvmx1977 2 months ago
@Ahuc899 If predictions help us sleep at night then I am all for it, but I doubt that in our lifetime we will ever reveal or understand this inconceivably massive and unimaginably complicated dimension that Humans call the universe. It is awesome beyond explanation and may only serve mankind as a subject of great frustration, confusion, imagination and conversation. I believe that interstellar travel for humans is unachievable and that mankind will perish before even leaving our solar system
iluvmx1977 2 months ago
@iluvmx1977
It's true that we'll probably never completely understand the entirety of the universe, but that doesn't mean we can't make predictions based on what we DO understand. Do you sleep well at night knowing there's nuclear power plants all over the Earth and the only thing stopping them from all melting down is based upon our incomplete understanding about how atoms behave?
We can see galaxies colliding without many collisions.. We can measure the distance between stars and see why.
Ahuc899 2 months ago
@Ahuc899 Mankind has many problems to solve here on earth before 'Dreaming' about the stars. There are so many unknown things about planet earth and our own beginnings and we can study that physically, what chance do we have of knowing the universe's secrets when its out of reach?. Back to my point, we know very little. Even the visible universe is not even 'Real', it is simply light that left those objects sometimes millions of years ago. the sheer distances are mind blowing.
iluvmx1977 2 months ago
@Ahuc899 The prediction that our galaxy will collide with Andromeda is based on little more than the dopler effect, the actual movement cannot be visually seen. the light we are looking at from andromeda is ancient. we cant even see where this galaxy is at this present moment, its actually closer than it appears. how much closer? no one knows. even the distances are based on theory, I know we are supposed to believe that these scientific astronomers know how to calculate but how accurate is it?
iluvmx1977 2 months ago
@Ahuc899 Its not like we can throw a tape measure out there and measure. the measurements are purely based upon the the intensity of the light that reaches us. I am very inclined to believe that these measurements are very educated guess work. no doubt the distances are HUGE but how accurate are they? Is these objects movement constant or accelerating?who really knows? we are told that the universe is expanding yet two galaxies are heading towards each other? NO ONE REALLY KNOWS JUST GUESS'S
iluvmx1977 2 months ago
@iluvmx1977 It's still possible that even though the Universe is expanding, things of that size can still collide. Gravity changes the directions of objects all the time.
FlargidyTV 2 months ago
@FlargidyTV In an infinate universe there are infinate possibilities. I understand this but my comments are directed towards people who assume that the Human race knows so much about these matters because of the bullshit and lies that we have been force fed as truth. Research the truth about our knowledge of gravitational pull alone, you will find that scientists still know very little about it. 'bending space fabric' that's their theory at the moment. that's right !! THEORY!!!
iluvmx1977 2 months ago
@iluvmx1977 What lies has science force fed us as truth? Many things in science are explained as theory or speculation. Such as the string theory, which is one possibility that has received a lot of attention because it is backed up with math. And the theory of dark matter that would help to explain why objects in space are positioned the way they are.
FlargidyTV 2 months ago
@FlargidyTV String theory! you said it. a theory is not a proven fact, nothing more than an idea. explained is also different to proven. String theory has the same place as plate tectonics, the primordial swamp and many other theories!!. school curriculum is still force feeding these scientific theories as fact. I am not religious either and think that religions are nothing more than bed time stories. believe what you like, it makes no difference anyway!
iluvmx1977 2 months ago
if galaxies colide it doesn't do anything stars and planets all have gravity so they'll just never colide
luigiman7789 3 months ago
Fuck old age, that's how I wanna go out.
Storage1129 3 months ago
13 people are creationists.
haleygoeswhoohoo 3 months ago
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docmonday1961 3 months ago
Even when the collision happens, our Solar System would just move locations, nothing would happen, except our night sky would have a very different appearance. Astronomers believe that stars will just move past each other, not really harming one another.
LunaXenoLovegood 4 months ago
@LunaXenoLovegood what if other planets crash?
haleygoeswhoohoo 3 months ago
@haleygoeswhoohoo The planets would remain in orbit with the Sun.
LunaXenoLovegood 3 months ago
@LunaXenoLovegood why? like wouldnt the collision cause them to move out of orbit?
haleygoeswhoohoo 3 months ago
@haleygoeswhoohoo If you think about it, not really.. The Sun is just moving, and there is no other star close enough to pull the planets in another direction, they'd just stay in orbit. Kind of like when Earth moves, the Moon is still circling it.
LunaXenoLovegood 3 months ago
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Rocketryman 4 months ago
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beautyinbreakdowns2 4 months ago
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ColemanD2 4 months ago
I lived in our galaxy before it was big.
Rolovis 4 months ago
A complete annihilation of all life in over 1,400 BILLION (1,400,000,000,000) stellar systems between 2 super massive galaxies and their many hundred associated dwarf galaxies...
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A complete intergalactic purge of all organic matter In the most unfathomable way and this guy says "Cool!" ...
LivingRockPartiarch 4 months ago
@LivingRockPartiarch Lol I don't think you know what "organic matter" means :)
There's currently several small galaxies "colliding" with the Milky Way. This really isn't that big of a deal in terms of whether or not we'll survive. In fact the only negative is that most models project we'll be thrown out farther away from the core, meaning less nearby start to emigrate to. We won't be able to live on Earth in 1.4 billions years anyway so we'll have to get moving.
Ahuc899 3 months ago
@Ahuc899 Is there??? which ones?? I have never heard about it, are you gifted with more knowledge than every astronomer on the planet?? please explain!!
iluvmx1977 2 months ago
@iluvmx1977 No, I just know how to perform a bit of routine research. Look up Canis Major galaxy which is currently colliding with the Milky Way, or Saggitarius galaxy, who's past collisions with the Milky Way are suspected to have created the arm structures of the galaxy.
So because you've never heard about it, the information must be unknown to all astronomers on the planet? That's quite a claim.
Ahuc899 2 months ago
milkymeda galaxy?
andromilky.
androway
medaway.
mmm.. decisions decisions.
leGianflavio 5 months ago 4
Can't wait.
cronicd21 5 months ago 16
Our sun is part of the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy (Sag DEG) which is breaking apart as its being gobbled by the Milky Way, around which it is in a polar orbit. The Milky Way is eating TONS of smaller Galaxies right now, and I can see it's perfectly capable of consuming much bigger ones too. DAMN this Galaxy is greedy!
SuperZekethefreak 5 months ago
@SuperZekethefreak Like the living beings inside it :)
spider853 5 months ago
It is estimated that the Andromeda galaxy contains approximately 1 trillion stars (1,000,000,000,000) whereas the Milky way contains 200 to 400 Billion. Yes indeed there will be collisions as the gravity of large celestial bodies such as the stars themselves, draw them together. Therefore their orbiting satellite (eg any orbiting planets, comet, asteroids will also be drawn in. There is plenty of space for near misses so not all bodies will collide.
Firesquid44 5 months ago
Andromilky Galaxy, ftw.
RIPIzzy022404 6 months ago
I wonder how many years pass during this collision?
NeverevenStudios 6 months ago
when this happens we have better develop a way to survive all of that.
MrInfinite09 6 months ago
The sun won't swallow earth before this, js.
The sun's supposed to die out in ABOUT 5billion years.
This could occur in the next 2-3 billion.
Keep in mind it could, but it could also happen in 10 billion, or even 5 billion, scientists aren't sure.
And to be honest, I would be completely okay if I died like this, like, seriously.
Imagine the fucking night sky.
Boxmaddness 6 months ago 2
@Boxmaddness
Humorously, you are hearing the word "collision" and thinking it means smashing together. The space between individual stars is gargantuan. Maybe 1 or 2 near-direct collisions between stars will occur during the entire merging of the two galaxies. Furthermore, even mid-collision, ~3 billion years hence, Andromeda won't seem to be moving in the sky. It will seem just as frozen in place as it does now. And most people can't even see our own Milky Way due to light pollution... :P
Username93611 6 months ago 2
Does anyone elses balls itch a little? Or is it just me?
asianshadowcandy 6 months ago
Before that happens, the Sun will already swallow the Earth. So, no worry about that.
gondolier62 6 months ago
should humanity in be around in about 3billion years maybe we can get concered then
t2h053187 7 months ago
WTF... You are worried about a "colision" in 10 billions years???
I am worried about my rent I have to pay next week!
eusouobservador 7 months ago 60
@eusouobservador Good one! Everything is relative!
Scrumpilump2000 6 months ago
@eusouobservador The collision is in 3 billion years not 10..HUGE difference and if they collide we wont be destroyed..we'll just be in a larger galaxy with a shit load of new planets lol
snowman2149 5 months ago
@snowman2149 This is true. However, in 1.5 billion years the earth's temperature will be to hot for water to exist. Thus ending all life on our planet.
blitzkrieg365 4 months ago
@eusouobservador tell your landlord he has more important things to worry about than collecting rent. the impending galaxy collision!! haha
Vanboevan 5 months ago
@eusouobservador Correction: 2-3 billion years.
member186 4 months ago
@eusouobservador 10 billion years? If it's in 10 billion years, the sun would had already gone red giant, engulfed earth, and dissipated! I doubt even if you could live 10 billion years you'd survive something like that.
deds80 2 months ago
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@eusouobservador 3 billion years actually.
animefangirlxx 2 months ago
@eusouobservador This sense of urgency is exactly why nobody cares about exploiting our habitat/environment to the point of destruction...
playgrrrr 1 month ago
@eusouobservador 5-7 to be exact
TraviansLittleHelpe 3 days ago
OH BULL! No "rare galactic" Formation like in spore ;.;
swizecheeze 7 months ago
Solo estaba haciendo mi tarea y salio esta preciosura :O
andiieeh44 8 months ago
Hey nick, Buddhist and Hindus do not always get along, look at Ceylon you douchebag
forallthatisunreal 8 months ago
Looks like the end of my cigarette @ night in the dark after I toke
forallthatisunreal 8 months ago
Imagaine our sky after that! It would be like day at night.
masterskyrunner 8 months ago
Just wait until we merge with Andromeda and become huge, then we'll show those other galaxies...
MacLaurin83 8 months ago 68
Andromilky galaxy
killersaad 8 months ago
This simulation doesn't take into account the Chuck Norris Effect.
kensei85 8 months ago 2
@kensei85 *lol*
eusouobservador 7 months ago
All over the earth Science and Religion have been 'enemies' for a long while. They can be seen as the 2 galaxies on collision course. One galaxy is called Hinduism and the other Science. Vaishnavites, Shivaites, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs etc. are like the planets and stars etc. of Hinduism Galaxy.
Astro-physics, Atomic-physics, Quantum-physics etc. are in turn the planets and stars etc. of the Science Galaxy.
Eventually Science and Religion will merge and will result in true enlightenment.
Nick50115 8 months ago
@Nick50115 What the hell are you babbling about? Please take your spiritual shit elsewhere.
GGXXD1 8 months ago
@GGXXD1 Shame you are unable to understand the similarity between the two, Science and Hinduism. Google 'Quantum entanglement'. While you are at it search for 'Dark matter'. Oh! yes do not forget 'Dark Energy'. What forces created the galaxies you see here, in the first place?
Perhaps this is not the place for me! bye!
Nick50115 8 months ago
@GGXXD1 Sorry forgot. 'shit' or manure goes to give the best fruit and veg if added to the soil at the right time. Perhaps you too are into some form of gardening. It's very relaxing too.
Nick50115 8 months ago
Nothing actually collides in a galactic collision. Galaxies are almost all empty space. There is virtually no threat at all. Please stop spreading the ignorance by posting "oh noez, humanity is gonna die!". If it isn't a threat to whoever is going to be around 5 billion years from now when it happens, it sure as hell isn't going to be a threat to humanity. The Earth won't even be habitable 5 billion years from now due to the expansion of our Sun.
SpazzyMcGee1337 8 months ago
@SpazzyMcGee1337 It really depends. If we end up in the center of the galaxy after the collision, it could be pretty devastating for the Earth.
GGXXD1 8 months ago
@GGXXD1 I already pointed out that the Earth wouldn't even be habitable by the time of the collision and even if that wasn't the case there still wouldn't be humans because it is impossible for a species to last 5 billion years without evolving into countless different forms over that time.
SpazzyMcGee1337 8 months ago
You know the universe is pure love. Even the galaxies needs hug!
HUNAdamus94 9 months ago
YOUR GODS SAVE US :DDDDDDDDD
Nummi31 9 months ago
well, we're fucked
in like 500 billion years
gogators432 9 months ago 7
@gogators432 wrong, 3 - 5 billion years... but the earth is killed way before we even starts to swirl with the Andromeda cause of the sun puffing out it's outer shell or layer, destroying or incinerating inner planets.
The6thMessenger 8 months ago
@The6thMessenger Wrong, if the collision happens in 3 billion years, the Sun has not destroyed the Earth yet.
GGXXD1 8 months ago
@gogators432 actually only 3 billion years.
alwaysmaggot11 8 months ago
@gogators432 Actually its about 3 billion years, but point taken :)
lkaruga 6 months ago
It looks like stuff floating in water. Zoom out 3^99^999% and it's a tiny droplet dripping from a dead dog's eye.
donaldfaulkner 9 months ago
Both black holes will start to suck each other, since milky way black hole has much more force, it will suck in andromeda's black hole faster, making it a collision with a huge supernove, after some time, the supernova, or what's left of it, will be sucked in by the new born huge black hole, with most of andromeda's stars and planets, we are on the further shape, basically, sun and we will be thrown out a bit further or sucked in a bit closer. Yeah, we will survive, but this will hapen NOT soon
Adrenalin844 9 months ago
@Adrenalin844 At least not in our lifetime.
DrKremlin 9 months ago
@DrKremlin Our sun probably be only a dwarf star when this happens... We will either get the heck of this galaxy or kill each other for territory, for example world war 3, but i don't see it coming personally :O
Adrenalin844 9 months ago
There not fighting rather UNITING.
ntco390 9 months ago
didn't know a chocolate bar could do that.
mmmotion 10 months ago
Milky Way- WINNING!!!
milk9837 10 months ago 2
If we were to be alive whilst this happened would it be a worldwide event where every one has large foam fingers, air horns and vuvuzuelas, chanting on the Milky Way?
matty406 10 months ago
0:09
- Andromeda uses Roundhouse kick
- Roundhouse kick misses
- Milky way uses stay still
-Andromeda uses CH4RGEE33!!!!11 ITS SUPER EFFECTIVE
~ What is this? Andromeda and milky way is merging! -WHOS THAT POKEMON!
member186 10 months ago
milky way +
andromeda
____________
milkydromeda galaxy!
Duskhero3000 10 months ago
I think this is the least of mankind's worries.
jegspillerpiano 10 months ago
we shouldn't think of the collision as a battle between the galaxies, more likely as sex
rolypolyoly95 10 months ago
bring it on Andromeda we have Chuck Norris
jugeteable 10 months ago 3
@jugeteable mabey it has its own chuck norris named huck morris and he has 2 fists under his beard!
mexuza 10 months ago
We wouldn't be able to call ourselves humans when this happens. I wonder how many evolutionary stagers would we progress through? Life began on earth from a self sustainable replicating chemical structure about 500 million years after the earth was formed. Imagine what life, (not on earth no more, too hot) would be like in 5 billion years.
Cinnarbar 10 months ago
alright Milky, kiss her, and eat her.
cassanovamencarifilm 11 months ago
will earth survive?
escottproductions 11 months ago
@escottproductions lol no.
KjartanFintland 10 months ago
FAAAAAALLLLLCON PUNCHHHHHH!
anthh13 11 months ago
how long would this entire process take?
kkksskkk 11 months ago
@kkksskkk This would take a long time . And it would not be like the Sci-Fi movie . It would appear as if it is in slow motion . This collision process may take millions or even billions of years .
EmperorMeowMeow 10 months ago
@EmperorMeowMeow It would probably be like sci fi movies to many individual planets and stars I think, I mean all of them are not gonna just pass unscathed. I just thought the process would be so lengthy that we won't ever have to worry about anything like this.
kkksskkk 10 months ago
@kkksskkk billions of years, but by then mankind would be dead. Since this is thought to happen millions from years from now, mankind would be unexistant since due to the steadily increasing temperature of the sun, water would be too hot to sustain life by then and mankind would perish. soo yes;) we do NOT need to worry about this.
LostInALoveHangover 10 months ago
Does somebody knows the name of the software used to do such animation?. Maybe I won't know how to use it at first glance, maybe I won't have enough scientific knowledge. But.... it's amazing to simulate the universe! So come on...
LokiFatherofFenrir 11 months ago
Milky Way and Andoromeda are mating! OMG! what will be there baby?? XD
Natskycutie 11 months ago
We don't know whats happening on the other side of this galaxy no less one a million years away
ineedaname7777777 11 months ago
If galaxies can collide then there is no big bang, just a thought
ineedaname7777777 11 months ago
@ineedaname7777777 wow, i'm suprised no-one ever thought of that. forget stephen hawking, lets stick you in a wheelchair and have you educate us all on the cosmos
scamoosh 11 months ago
ANDROMEDA IS JEALOUS OF OUR LIFEFORMS!!!
PKarklouse 1 year ago
Well what I learned from Astronomy is that everything in space is moving forward. So does that mean that the Milky Way Galaxy is moving slower than Andromeda?
NaopengisCool 1 year ago
will the black holes collide and form a bigger black hole?
or pass near each other lol
selearemus 1 year ago
@selearemus
even scientists and astronomers don't know for certain, but they theorize that a bigger black hole will be formed, as for our solar system, it will simply coast to andromeda,
MrTesla86 1 year ago
@selearemus It's difficult to measure what happens when black holes collide. If their cyclical rotation is similar, it is entirely possible that they merely merge and become an even more supermassive black hole. It is also very possible that the two black holes (both unable to consume each other) will be repulsed with an expulsion of energy thousands of times greater than our sun emits. (Think of pressing two negative magnets together, but multiplied infinite times.)
jsnake01 11 months ago
@Cloob1, that's us. We're gonna be fucked.
Bigfrie19 1 year ago
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@Bigfrie19
In 100 years you are already fucked.
So don't bother. :-)
Snowwie88 11 months ago
if this will be true. then..
go milky way.!! kick his outer balls...
sheffersoria13 1 year ago
The stars on the outer rim are FUCKED!
cloob1 1 year ago
The greatest gig in the sky
The sky at night, as viewed from Mars
Is a brilliant glow of billions of stars
A long drawn kiss on a bright dance floor
A glorious spectacle on the planet of War
Heavens explode in galactic nebula
Great fireworks of stunning beauty
We watched and watched in open awe
Of the strength and power and silent roar
cheechierocks 1 year ago
with the left! get him with the left!!!
antonio36123 1 year ago
One thing that bugs me is, I want to know how is it possible that we even know what our neighboring galaxies are since we are taking photographs from INSIDE the milky way....
wasnt there a spotnik satellite that is out there that isnt even close to leaving the milky way? i dunno this whole milky way is going to collide seems too far fetched from the start
DarkDragon187II 1 year ago
@DarkDragon187II All such things being calculated based on data collevted monitoring different objects moving it the universe. Telescopes, computers and such. And no, there's too large distances between us and the closest spot you are talking about. All about calculations for like... 50 years, for sure.
rundomized 1 year ago
Well, that's 3 billion. In one billion years, the sun will start its red giant fase, and burn everything to a crisp. If we are still alive and/or still in the Sol system, better make, say Eris, the new refuge. The sun will swallow the blue pearl eventually but the habitable zone will shift, making Kuiper Belt objects melt and creating water in the (former) outer solar system. But I'm sure we'll go the dino way before that ;-)
Gezoes 1 year ago
The collision process shown here will actually take several hundred million years to unfold, and will only happen some 3 billion years from now. By that time we will have long been gone.
istvanklein 1 year ago
Man, too bad I'll be dead by then! I wouldn't mind seeing the collision. XD
MysticMelodyFlute 1 year ago
1. Not sure it will happen. Scientists still don't have enough information about speeds and routes of the galaxies. However they hope to discover it next year (2011).
2. If it will happen, it will be 5 billion years from now. Till then our Earth will be swallowed by the growing Sun.
3. Galaxies collision will not cause the collision of the stars within them. Stars take less than 0.5% of the place in galaxies so the chance of stars collision is very small.
golddim 1 year ago
When this happends, will earth be separated from our sun? ;(
SunriseFestival 1 year ago
@SunriseFestival
Actually even if this does happen, Earth will probably be swallowed up by our sun along with Mercury and Venus due to the fact that the sun will grow large and become a red giant and if Earth doesn't get swallowed it's still doomed anyway. Earth's surface will become way to hot for water to exist because of the thus ending terrestrial life. Also humans will already be extinct when it happens. But hey that's all going to happen in about 4.5 billion years. So don't worry. :)
MysticMelodyFlute 1 year ago
@MysticMelodyFlute but it would be kinda cool if earth could get knocked out from sun's orbit, but also very sad. aw dont say that^^ i bet we somehow gonna find a way to survive earth and move to a new home.
SunriseFestival 1 year ago
@SunriseFestival
Well I think the chances of humans surviving is slim but technology is still advancing so it's possible that human beings could be so advanced by then that they could leave the planet and find another place to live on. =P
MysticMelodyFlute 1 year ago
@SunriseFestival Scientists say that the entire solar system will be flung deep into space when Andromeda and the Milky Way collide. When this occurs, I'm guessing that all the planets and the Sun will separate farther apart from each other. If Earth is much farther from the Sun, life would cease to exist. So yeah, it would also be the end of the human race... FOREVER.
Sporefan04 6 months ago
@Sporefan04
No scientists say that. You made that up and you're incorrect. See my other post. Also, the Sun won't become a Red Giant for another 5 to 6 billion years, however, well before that, it will heat up due to the shrinking of its core due to the helium it has already fused. In approximately 1 billion years the Sun will be hot enough to boil off Earth's oceans. Mars, however, will warm up.
Username93611 6 months ago
@Username93611 How do you know scientists don't say that? You've listened to every scientist on Earth?? Even if they didn't, it COULD happen. People don't know EXACTLY what will happen when the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy will collide, it's impossible to tell.
But I did hear a scientist say that the solar system will plunge deep into space, I think it was on a video called: The Future of the Milky Way 8/11
Watch it and you will see.
Sporefan04 6 months ago
@Sporefan04
I know because I read current Astronomical society publications and have actually studied astronomy, cosmology, physics, and furthermore, I understand on even the most base of levels, the structure of the galaxy, which you apparently don't. The person you got that idea from clearly doesn't either, and thus, is clearly not a "scientist." There are people with degrees in physical sciences. When they spout gibberish and ignore the scientific method, they lose the "scientist" title.
Username93611 6 months ago
Quick question - if this happens, will my insurance policy be valid?
fishhead06 1 year ago
@fishhead06 it depends...as long you are up to date with payments,your insurance company will cover all your ailments..(but not including loss of life,galactic devastation,deadly black hole(collision) radiation discharges,possible level 5 extinction event etc.)
unabashedoptimist 1 year ago
im pretty sure theres some extraterrestrial race in the andromeda galaxy saying the same thing Neravar1990 is saying but about the milky way lolol.
unabashedoptimist 1 year ago
@unabashedoptimist yes my gran gran gran gran mum lives there!!!
libertango100 1 year ago
andromeda is gonna get its ass kicked!! sadly i wont watch the fight!!!1 and oi no safing and eat at 100
022henry 1 year ago
but wouldnt it cause us to have 2!!! SUNS!?!?!
boyleon96 1 year ago
@boyleon96 by then our sun will turn into a red giant and die.
franky77full 1 year ago
@boyleon96
Troll much?
applefrog111 1 year ago
By then we would have Spaceships =P
it would form the Super-Milk galaxy :)
PcGamerPaul 1 year ago
The fate of the Earth and the Solar System in the event of a collision (in 4.5 billion years time) are currently unknown. If the galaxies do not merge, there is a chance that the Solar System could be ejected from the Milky Way or join Andromeda.
The funny thing is some are speculating recently about us not even belonging to Milky way originally, there's a possibility the solar system, originally from the dwarf galaxy sagittarius, has ben incorporated into milky way during a galactic fest.
Electromusicisgood 1 year ago
Andromeda wants to destroy us because it hates our freedom.
streetswell 1 year ago 42
@streetswell jajajajajajajajajajajaj
ernestrod 8 months ago
By this time we will be able to travel at FTL speeds using quantum amplification using a mass effect field..So earthlings will all be safe.. lolol
rattletop 1 year ago
one time in the night in the beech i could see the damn asteroid belt it was badass!
m14closerangeSniper 1 year ago
@m14closerangeSniper - You must have been using LSD. The asteroid belt is invislbe because the asteroids are extremely small and thus very faint.
Drag0nfoxx 1 year ago
@Drag0nfoxx no im not an astrologist, and no i was not on lsd i saw a thick row of stars and im guessing it was the asteroid belt or the milky way.
m14closerangeSniper 1 year ago
@m14closerangeSniper - Just joking ;-) The asteroid belt is invisible, so you probably saw the Milky Way. Lucky you, it's a great sight.
Drag0nfoxx 1 year ago
this is how a child is born
humantestdummy 1 year ago
According to some research, by the time the Andromeda galaxy and the Milky way Galaxy collide, the surface of the earth will already be way too hot for living things due to the increasing of the suns temperature.
Tamarulyn 1 year ago
@Tamarulyn Of course long before then humans will be advanced lifeforms living in machines. The downloading of the human brain (as a simulation) on to computers is probably only 50-100 years away at most, i.e. immortality. So we might be around in some form... but probably not human. Never say never.
mikeyo1234 1 year ago
@mikeyo1234
At least you're being positive. I personally wouldn't hold my breath. People way back not too long ago though that by now we would be driving flying cars and living on the moon.
Tamarulyn 1 year ago
@Tamarulyn Lol good point. Caveman thought he'd have plasma TV in 10 years from making his first flint... how wrong that young whippersnapper was.
mikeyo1234 1 year ago
@mikeyo1234 As least he learned from his mistake haha
Tamarulyn 1 year ago
gigity gigity
JackpotJay 1 year ago 2
Fascinating
twisterwiper 1 year ago
A long long time ago in a galaxy far far aw.. OH WAIT ITS HEADING STRAIGHT FOR US!!!!
tagaEskinita 1 year ago 2
Since we're in one of the Milky Way's outer arms, we'll get flung out into deep space from the gravitational pull of the 1st near miss...? Dang.
MilwaukeeJAK 1 year ago
Milky way vs Andromeda. We're gonna kick andromeda's ass! go milky way!
Nerevar1990 1 year ago 89