Should I be worried about the Milky Way sucking Andromeda to merge these galaxies (History Channel said so)?

Answer 1

It's true that the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies are moving toward each other and will eventually merge. But this won't happen for about 5 billion years so not to worry. Even if you discovered immortality and were alive at the time, there is still little to worry about. The stars in each galaxy are so far apart there is just an infinitely small chance of our sun running into another sun.

Answer 2

My friend, you don't need to worry about an event when the Milky Way Galaxy collides with the Andromeda Galaxy because....it won't happen until 4 billion years into the future. And of course a documentary that you saw on the History Channel did say so only with accurate predicting projections calculated by astronomers and scientists. Let's take a look with my answer, shall we?

In the 1980s or the 1990s, Canadian astronomer Marshall McCall calculated the future paths of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies and believed that both will collide in about 4 billion years from now. Just as two swarms of gnats pass through each other, the two galaxies of stars will pass through each other without individual stars colliding. Individual stars are too small and far apart to have much chance to collide with each other during such an event. Intergalactic collisions are well-known, and studies show that they strip the gas and dust from the two colliding galaxies. Furthermore, the gravitational attractions of the galaxies distort the galaxy shape, thus ejecting many stars into intergalactic space. It's likely that when Andromeda comes a-calling, the Sun will find itself, along with other stars, pulled out of the Milky Way, perhaps even being torn permanently away from its parent galaxy.

Such an event would radically change the night sky. For several hundred million years before the collision, Earth creatures (including humans) would see the Andromeda galaxy filling the night sky withe a faint pattern of spiral arms and a dazzling bright center. After the collision, if the Sun was one of the stars torn out of the Milky Way, Earth creatures might see both galaxies filling the sky, and the center of one or both galaxies might be transformed into a bright quasar.

Strangely enough, Earth creatures might not notice other radical changes because the whole solar system would respond to gravitational forces as a unit. Therefore, if the Sun was one of the stars torn out of the Milky Way, then its planets would go along with it, circling the Sun in their orbits as they always have.

And here, my friend, is your long answer to your question of worrying about the Milky Way-Andromeda galactic collision.

Answer 3

The sucking part? forget that.

Worrying? Yeah, why not. In 5 or 6 billion years, our own Galaxy (Milky Way) and the Andromeda Galaxy will collide. It is very likely that actual stars will not collide (too much space between stars). However, some may be ejected by the tidal and other gravitational effects. Difficult to guess in advance which ones.

By that time, our Sun will have run out of hydrogen to fuse in the core. It will bloat out and become a red giant. It will be large enough for our present orbit to be inside the red giant sun.

Before we get there, the Sun will have evolved (it uses up matter to give energy) and become less massive. Therefore our orbit will increase over the next few billion years. Maybe our orbit will then be large enough to avoid being gobbled up. Maybe not.

I would worry more about the red giant phase of our sun than about the collision.

Both will take place, if we wait around long enough (5 to 6 billion years in both cases).

Find something else to do in the meantime. I plan to take up a hobby while I wait.

Answer 4

we can be looking at from our little area colonies around the shrunken orange famous person which replaced into our solar. The Earth could have been deserted for better than one billion years and is an ice planet with some archeological digs and a present day save for vacationers. Mercury is roofed by domes and sounds like a insect's eye from area, floor temperature on the solar-locked area is bearable, if somewhat chilly... the domes help for raising vegetation. We nevertheless can't return and forth between stars with impunity, in spite of the shown fact that some robots have been dispatched to the diverse closer stars, maximum have back with under exciting information. some have not back in any respect. the fairly greater stages of radiation, led to by Ia supernovae, white dwarf stars amassing the dirt clouds that coalesce because of the gravitational disturbances from the Milky way/ Andromeda merger. The morphing of the Milky way from a spiral to an elliptical galaxy will reason many stars to "fall" out of their orbits into different orbits. This effect would be referred to as "The Andromeda tension"... no person will think of that's humorous.

Answer 5

Dont worry, it wont happen for a few billion years yet, they are moving together, near the speed of light in fact.

That may seem fast but they are millions of light years away.

The andromeda galaxy has 1.50 times the mass of our galaxy, and it is almost twice the size with twice the amount of stars, even so, both galaxies will be completey shredded. And as for the milky way sucking in andromeda, its actually vice versa, with andromeda expelling much more force.

Answer 6

Not to worry 5billion years like everyone says. But before that event our Sun would be turning into a Red Giant and engulf the earth. However I imagine if humans could escape to another location we would be able to see something spectacular in the night sky. Andromeda in it's full glory looming in the horizon. What a sight that would be!!

Thank you for your question

Answer 7

Nah. Not unless you plan on living 2 billion years (this is when they are expected to begin to merge). Even then it is going to take several (roughly 5) more billion years for the merge to be complete. And the likelyhood of stars or planets colliding is astronomically small.

Answer 8

No you should not worry about this up coming collision between these Galaxy's, it will be about a million or more years before they collide, I don't think anyone has to worry about it, except for the people on earth in a million years, that is if we have not been killed of by then, from Comets or Asteroids, or nuclear war.

Answer 9

the two will merge at about the same time that our sun dies. so it is unlikely that you will have to worry about it unless you plan on living for 5 billion years.

if you should manage to live 5 billion years the merger of the two galaxies would likely not affect us much.

Answer 10

the short answer is no you should not worry,unless you are the highlander, a vampire or found the fountain of youth this problem will work itself out 5,000,000,000 years after you are gone. the earth has only been around at most 4.5 billion years now.