“Roskosmos” has shown how the Milky Way collide with Andromeda – BBC

09.01.2016, 17:31

The Russian State Corporation for Space Activities “Roscosmos “published on its page to YouTube video that shows what happens to the Earth through 4 billion years after the collision of two galaxies – the Milky Way and Andromeda.

According to Russian scientists, galaxies are moving towards each other, which will inevitably lead to a clash. “It will be very unhappy spectacle for earthlings, if they have the time to be there on his planet. Our solar system will feel the extraordinary acceleration. We throw out of the plane of our galaxy somewhere far away “- said the astrophysicist, academician Rashid Sunyaev.

The Andromeda Galaxy so far distant from the Earth about 2.52 million light-years, contains about 1 trillion stars that in two – two and a half times the size of the Milky Way.

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