Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 7 months agoSpiral galaxies like the Milky Way are surprisingly rare. Astronomers may finally know why.www.livescience.commessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up132
arrow-up132external-linkSpiral galaxies like the Milky Way are surprisingly rare. Astronomers may finally know why.www.livescience.comLee Duna to [email protected]English • 7 months agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-square@bdx2023link6•edit-27 months ago… So that infamous impending collision with Andromeda will take our spirals away?! (Impending in a cosmological sense, so several million years at least IIRC)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•7 months agoThousands of millions of years I think, and continuing for at least hundreds of millions before the bouncing stops https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExbzcxZ2VudzQ0djQwZTB4MXdzbzdqdXQ4aDVkdWxkMnJ3amJndmlrbCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/rytLWOErAX1F6/giphy.gif
… So that infamous impending collision with Andromeda will take our spirals away?!
(Impending in a cosmological sense, so several million years at least IIRC)
Thousands of millions of years I think, and continuing for at least hundreds of millions before the bouncing stops
https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExbzcxZ2VudzQ0djQwZTB4MXdzbzdqdXQ4aDVkdWxkMnJ3amJndmlrbCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/rytLWOErAX1F6/giphy.gif