Milky Way-And Andromeda Collision Uncertain

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Our galaxy might crash into Andromeda. What would happen to us?

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Milky Way may collide and merge with Andromeda , which is over twice the size of the Milky Way.

Such a collision would create a giant, egg-shaped galaxy.

The solar system will in all likelihood be almost unaffected, says an astrophysicist.

The collision won't violently throw planets and stars around like billiard balls, but it will change things.

"There is a probability of close to 50 percent that there is no Milky Way - Andromeda merger during the next 10 billion years ," researchers say.

Earthlings, if we manage to avoid self-annihilation and persist for billions of years upon our shape-shifting continents, might still never witness such a merger.

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