The Milky Way Could Crash Into Another Galaxy Billions of Years Earlier Than Predicted
Mark your calendars for a rendezvous with the Large Magellanic Cloud.
by Marina Koren
Jan 05, 2019
3 minutes
Ah, the Milky Way, our glittering home in the cosmos. Seen in an unencumbered night sky, far from the glare of city lights, it seems magnificent and eternal in its enormity. Nothing could shift this ancient web of stars, nothing could disturb its transcendent stoicism.
Except, that is, another galaxy. Galaxies orbit millions of light-years apart, but gravity, the immutable magnet of the cosmos, , producing spectacular collisions that reshuffle stars millions of years. According to the leading theory, the Milky Way
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