Disaster is inevitable: when the intergalactic collapse awaits humanity

A group of US astronomers clarified the picture of the motion of the Andromeda nebula, called M31 galaxy, and the nearest triangle, the M33. and Andromeda Nebula

We explain that Andromeda and the Triangle, like our galaxy, are part of the local group of galaxies – the M33 is the third largest galaxy of the local group after the Milky Way and the Andromeda nebula [19659003]. But a collision This will happen later than expected – 600 million years later. Cataclysm will occur in 4.5 billion years (approximate age of the Earth). Moreover, it turned out that our star systems will not collide with the "front", but with the tangent.

"The stars intersect, the characteristic distance between them is tens of millions of times larger than their size.Of course, the stars will affect each other by their gravity, so that a kind of Billiards could begin, allowing the sun to project into the intergalactic space, but galaxies are not only stars, but also gass.Vestige.Nauka.

Interesting Facts About The Andromeda Galaxy

M 1945 – It was named by Charles Messier, an French astronomer who placed it in his repertoire under the definition of "M31".

This galaxy is larger than the Milky Way and contains a trillion stars (the milky way may contain 100 to 400 billion stars).

There are two bright objects in the central part of the galaxy (P1 and P2) separated by a only 5 light-years away. Each of them contains several millions of very distant blue stars, that is to say that the galaxy has a double nucleus.

Clashes with the Milky Way – but the Earth will survive. Scientists assume that the Earth hardly suffers from this intergalactic collapse, both galaxies have a lot of free space.

As previously reported, the north magnetic pole is rapidly shifted to Siberia. The rate of displacement of the Earth's north magnetic pole over the last 20 years has increased 3.5 times. For comparison: in the mid-1990s, the pole was moving at a speed of 15 km per year. Today, this figure reaches 55 km per year.

The Chinese satellite DSLWP photographed the Earth from an unusual angle. In the image made by the micro-satellite, the Earth "hides" behind the moon.