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Old September 12th 20, 01:54 AM posted to alt.astronomy
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Default Milky Way & Andromeda Merger



Daniel65 wrote:
wrote on 8/09/2020 7:55 AM:
Closing, and destined to merge in about 4.5 billion years, is often
touted as a collision, but this is very misleading. There will be
essentially no resulting star collisions, although lots of
gravitational interactions, and the formation of one super galaxy.
Pity that no human is likely to witness anything, for a number of
good reasons.

The two Galaxies WILL collide ... however, as you then explain,
collisions between actual Stars that make up the Galaxies will be very,
very, rare!!




You mean even rarer than actually getting sick from the wuhan kung flu ?