Greetings, my fellow port swillers!
I see where the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course, indeed may already be faintly brushing each other’s outer haloes, and will merge into a giant elliptical galaxy in about 5 billion years.
No worries about adjusting yourselves, however, because our own sun will have gone Red Giant and cooked Earth to a cinder a billion years earlier. (I blame glowbull enwarmening.)
But the article doesn’t give up hope:
“But by that time, maybe some earthly inhabitants will have become space-faring. Perhaps we’ll have left Earth, and even our solar system. We may still get the view of Andromeda crashing into the Milky Way, just from a slightly different perspective.“
Professor Reynolds, is that you?
Regular friends of the decanter will recall that Ol’ Robbo likes to make himself dizzy from time to time pondering interstellar distances and geological time. Here, I get to do both. Win, win!
**thud**
By the bye, some pretty nice “artist’s renditions” in the article.
UPDATE: Speaking of which, Ol’ Robbo is still waiting for Betelgeuse to go nova, as was teased about three years back now.
**Glares at watch**
I suppose we can blame that disappointment on the covids.
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