If Homo sapiens can stick it out on Earth for
another two billion years, our descendants may witness quite a show in
the night sky. Researchers estimate that the Milky Way will collide
with its nearest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, at around that
time—well before the sun collapses into a white dwarf, perhaps
destroying the Earth in the process.http://ljsheehan.blogspot.com This close encounter of the galactic kind could easily kick our
solar system to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, |