Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years agoSpiral galaxies like the Milky Way are surprisingly rare. Astronomers may finally know why.www.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down19
arrow-up122arrow-down1external-linkSpiral galaxies like the Milky Way are surprisingly rare. Astronomers may finally know why.www.livescience.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square5linkfedilink
minus-squarebdx2023@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-22 years 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-squareTrabic@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years 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