04-25-2021, 06:24 PM
... in two billion years, lol. But still. That's crazy.
New Milky Way map reveals a wave of stars in our galaxy's outer reaches (msn.com)
From the article:
"The impact has a chance of sending our solar system hurtling through space". What would THAT look like?
Here's the actual source study:
aftermath of the Great Collision between our Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
From the source study:
×1012M⊙
That's interesting to me, because I would have thought more along the lines of ×18⊙Mx11 but what do I know?
New Milky Way map reveals a wave of stars in our galaxy's outer reaches (msn.com)
From the article:
"The impact has a chance of sending our solar system hurtling through space". What would THAT look like?
Here's the actual source study:
aftermath of the Great Collision between our Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
From the source study:
×1012M⊙
That's interesting to me, because I would have thought more along the lines of ×18⊙Mx11 but what do I know?
