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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

2-5bn years with andromeda, not even close.

[–] MohamedMoney@feddit.org 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Thank you but I didn’t mean andromeda. I think heard something about merging with a dwarf galaxy or something

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

https://youtu.be/xZUYtRF_pw0

You are correct! Here's a really good video on the topic.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You'd think we would be able to see a dwarf galaxy approaching close to our galaxy at night? Or how dwarfey are we talking?

[–] MohamedMoney@feddit.org 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t know why you bring up being able to see the dwarf galaxy at night as a qualifier. The dwarf galaxy I’m talking about seems to be Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t know why you bring up being able to see the dwarf galaxy at night as a qualifier.

Because a whole ass galaxy should be visible, I would think, but I also asked how small we're talking — maybe it wouldn't be visible. You know?

Anyway,

The Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, a small satellite of the Milky Way that is leaving a stream of stars behind as an effect of our Galaxy’s gravitational tug, is visible as an elongated feature below the Galactic centre and pointing in the downwards direction in the all-sky map of the density of stars observed by ESA’s Gaia mission between July 2014 to May 2016.

Scientists analysing data from Gaia’s second release have shown our Milky Way galaxy is still enduring the effects of a near collision that set millions of stars moving like ripples on a pond. The close encounter likely took place sometime in the past 300–900 million years, and the culprit could be the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy.

Seems like it was only a near collision eons ago, but maybe it's still on a an absorption path to be consumed by The Milky Way in the future. Cool, didn't know about that.

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/xZUYtRF_pw0

Here is a great video talking about the dwarf galaxies around the milky way and how they have shaped and affected our galaxy.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Cool, thanks, I'll have a look 🙂