After nearly a century of speculation, the Hubble Telescope can now predict with certainty: the titanic collision of the Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy is approximately 4 billion years away.
When this happens, it’s likely the sun will be flung into a new region of the Milky Way, but Earth and the solar system are in no danger of being destroyed.
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