….,Do you agree on the theory…our galaxy the milkyway will crash into the galaxy Andromeda?:P and we would be

Question: ....,Do you agree on the theory...our galaxy the milkyway will crash into the galaxy Andromeda?:P and we would be foating in space ?x
- Keywords:
  andromeda,
  galaxy,
  milky way
Asked by awesomefishysayrawrr to Ed, Katie, Sam, Steve, Vera on 22 Jun 2011.
- Katie Marriott answered on 21 Jun 2011:
  
  The two galaxies are moving towards one another so they will eventually collide. However, Scientists have predicted it will take 5-6 billion years – so you are safe for now!
  
  I am not sure which bit we are in or what happens if two collide, but it can’t be good!
- Vera Weisbecker answered on 21 Jun 2011:
  
  I heard that galaxies have such little densities of stars that the collision of the galaxies will cause relatively few collisions of stars. So we may be lucky there (although by then the sun will have swallowed up the earth already, right?)
- Steven Daly answered on 21 Jun 2011:
  
  Our galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy will merge in a few million years time. However, galaxies colliding are pretty boring. There is so much empty space that the stars will mostly not even get near each other. The gas in the galaxies though will collide and become super bright, so the galaxy(ies?) will become a much more colourful place.
- Sam Tazzyman answered on 22 Jun 2011:
  
  If it isn’t going to happen for 5 or 6 billion years then the Earth will have already been swallowed up by the Sun, yes. So it won’t matter to us anyway.