Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using 100,000 supercomputer simulations.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Paul Morris: Lead Producer
Video Credits:
Milky Way Timelapse
Stock Footage Provided By Pond5/lovemushroom
Artist Rendition of Gaia Spacecraft
ESA
Artist’s animation of the Sun becoming a red giant
ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
Milky Way and Andromeda Collision Simulation
Visualization Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers (STScI) Simulation Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Besla (Columbia University), and R. van der Marel (STScI)
Music Credit:
"Lost to Eternity" by Timothy James Cornick [PRS] via BBC Production Music [PRS] and Universal Production Music
