The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at nearly a quarter million miles per hour. It is the closet major galaxy to our Milky Way and is the most distant thing you can see with the naked eye at 2.5 million light years away. Absolute chaos will begin as the two galaxies approach each other, eventually becoming Milkomeda. Everything will look like a massive pinball game, with huge amounts of rocks, dust, asteroids, planets, and stars being thrown in all directions. Until 2012, it was not known whether the collision was definitely going to happen or not. Researchers, using Hubble to track the motions of stars in Andromeda with unprecedented accuracy, concluded the galaxies would collide in about 4/5 billion years. Such collisions are relatively common, considering galaxies long lifespans. According to simulations, the remnant will look like a giant elliptical galaxy, which is a blob-like galaxy without discernible spiral arms or an internal structure. #space #spacetok #astronomy #astronomytok #andromeda #andromedagalaxy #milkywaygalaxy #galaxy #galaxycollision #milkdromeda #andromedamilkywaycollision #astro7e