05 Aug 2022 – 10:00 p.m.
Every year, week, minute and second we spend on Earth, it means that we are progressively approaching the end of the galaxy, as we know it now.
It is that scientists project that in a few 4 billion years morethe Milky Way, the galaxy in which we live, will collide with the neighboring star cluster, the Andromeda galaxy.
Currently, they are some 2.5 million light years separate the massive space bodies, but it is estimated that these are close to 402 thousand kilometers per hour. It is that the future of objects would be completely determined by gravity, a force whose effects we cannot stop.
This is not a unique event, but has been recorded before in space, and each new example that scientists find becomes a new object of study to find out how they behave.
What will happen to the planet?
When the day comes that both galaxies meet, both will lose their original shape; the The Milky Way will no longer be the spiral we know, nor will Andromeda maintain its current shape..
As predicted, the new superformation will be a giant elliptical, with supermassive black holes from both stellar bodies at its center, interacting in a binary system.
The astronomer and science popularizing influencer, Theresa Panequeexplained on Twitter that individual objects, such as stars and planets, “they seldom collide” between them.
Today’s astronomical fact, the Milky Way (our galaxy) is going to collide with the neighboring galaxy, Andromeda! #TereTeExplains when and how the phenomenon will look thanks to a beautiful simulation????????
At the end I show you how we think the variation in the night sky would be! ???? pic.twitter.com/apFGbROOAF
– Teresa Paneque Carreño???? (@terepaneque) August 5, 2022
But by the time all this happens, the Sun of our Solar System will no longer be as we know it, and it will be closer to its death. For those years it is expected that the star will become a red giant, a huge and massive star in which the last elements that feed it are burned.
According to experts, when this happens, the star will eliminate the Earth and all the planets that are in the closest orbits; So there is a great possibility that neither humanity nor the planet we inhabit see the new galactic order.
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