What Happens When Galaxies Collide?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Astronomy, Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Will our lives be affected when the Milky Way collides with Andromeda?

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0:00.0	Hey Daniel, what keeps you up at night?
0:09.4	Oh, I worry about a lot of things.
0:11.6	Financial crises.
0:13.6	My kids growing up to be just like me, all sorts of stuff.
0:16.8	I worry about that too.
0:19.5	For them.
0:20.5	You worry about my kids growing up to be just like me.
0:22.2	We can't have more of him in the world.
0:24.4	Okay.
0:25.4	But like on a galactic scale, on a universe scale, what's something we should
0:29.9	be concerned about?
0:30.9	Well, we do have a lot of things to look forward to in terms of our galaxy.
0:34.2	If we survive the sun exploding and the waters of the Earth boiling off, then we have something
0:38.3	pretty dramatic to look forward to, which is that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is going
0:42.1	to collide with their nearest neighbor in Dramada.
0:45.2	Meaning, right now, there's an entire galaxy in Dramada heading towards us at this very
0:50.2	moment.
0:51.2	That's right.
0:52.2	It's like somebody shot at us with a slingshot and it's zooming right towards us.
0:56.3	It's going to hit us smack on.
1:03.3	Hi, I'm Jorge.
1:13.3	And I'm Daniel.
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