[QUOTE="Gigagamer2"][QUOTE="H8sMikeMoore"][QUOTE="d51man"]Link
I wonder if something like that could happen in our solar system...
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i think were on a collision course with andromeda
our sun will die before Andromeda hits us, but then again, even if we move planets, we are still going to be hit.
"hit" is bit of a misnomer... We may not even notice that it is happening if we didn't have devices to observe it.
The only proper way we know it is happening is due to an observational effect called blue-shift, where and object moving fast enough towards you means that the wavelengths of light become compressed (sort of) meaning thy are shorter. This causes the object to appear more blue than the surrounding objects
and merger is probably a better word, but there will still be some destruction. Besides, if we were on Earth 500,000 years before the merger started, we would notice a rather large galaxy in the sky, although you wouldnt necessarily know where it was before.
EDIT: And we dont know what will happen to us when the merger takes place, the millions of stars and unique gravity effecting our orbit could fling us away or take us through a very dense patch of stars nearer the centre.
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