Galactical Battle: Andromeda versus The Milky Way

Our universe has been shaped by many collisions. Our own planet is a result of such collisions. We have seen through the manufactured lens put up in space collision of greater magnitude, Galactical collision. These collisions are so magnificant to watch from a distance but as fate would have it...our own galaxy is getting ready for a similar fight.

Scientist are using the calculating power of super computers to make predictions on a very likely course the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy are on currently.

I am an ametuer when it comes to the cosmos and the science behind it. Maybe some of you might chime on this interesting discovery shown on the discovery channel.



And not to cause immediate panic and the 2012 crowd all riled up, this event is predicted to happen many many many years into the future.

Also this video is about a week old, so if this posted anywhere else...mods please remove this thread.

It is interesting to "see" this happen..

I have just finished watching "The Universe" season 2, The Milky Way, Ep 4, and it goes on to describe this very battle.

Apparrently there are also 2 other small galaxys also doing battle with our galaxy.

There is already a dwarf galaxy beginning to collide with the milky way.
Called the Saggitarius Dwarf . en.wikipedia.org...

and it is apparently "where we are from" viewzone2.com...

imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov...

The announcement of a small galaxy colliding with ours was made by astronomer Rosemary Wyse at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia in February.
The dwarf galaxy is not a "dark matter" galaxy, but rather the dark matter mixed in with the rest of the material in the dwarf galaxy appears to be holding it together under the gravitational tidal forces exerted by our galaxy. The proximity of this dwarf galaxy, however, will allow astronomers to better study the nature of dark matter.

Scientists Now Know: We're Not From Here!
Summary & comments by Dan Eden for Viewzone

Imagine the shock of growing up in a loving family with people you call "Mum" and "Dad" and then, suddenly, learning that you are actually adopted!

This same sense of shock came as scientists announced that the Sun, the Moon, our planet and its siblings, were not born into the familiar band of stars known as the Milky Way galaxy, but we actually belong to a strange formation with the unfamiliar name of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy!

How can this be?

Using volumes of data from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a major project to survey the sky in infrared light led by the University of Massachusetts, the astronomers are answering questions that have baffled scientists for decades and proving that our own Milky Way is consuming one of its neighbors in a dramatic display of ongoing galactic cannibalism. The study published in the Astrophysical Journal, is the first to map the full extent of the Sagittarius galaxy and show in visually vivid detail how its debris wraps around and passes through our Milky Way. Sagittarius is 10,000 times smaller in mass than the Milky Way, so it is getting stretched out, torn apart and gobbled up by the bigger Milky Way.

We are from another galaxy in the process of joining with the Milky Way. The Milky Way is actually not our parent galaxy. The mystery of why the Milky Way has always been sideways in the night sky has never been answered -- until now.

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Just to let you know, the theory that our Sun was born in the Sagittarius galaxy has not been well accepted in the scientific community. I, for one, like the idea but apparently many others love to spend time debunking it. Star for you BTW.

I find this actually quite eerie, the thought that there is a force out there that is going to strip this planet of its very existance, and there isn't a single thing any power in the universe, even in our wildest imaginations can do about it really..

Imagine, Hundreds of thousands of years of progress, construction, war, famine, art, music, gone. In an instant, with absolutely no record of it ever being there in the universe ever.

Granted, this is all going to be way way after I and everyone else has gone, but still... a disconcerting thought I think?