[Image Assembly & Processing: Robert Gendler and Judy Schmidt; Image Data: Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Legacy Archive, R. Gendler]
this week’s Cosmos mentioned at one point in the future our galaxy would merge/collide with another (I think it was Andromeda?). Animations are ok to explain the concept, but it’s really neat to see the phenomena happening elsewhere in ‘real time’. Thanks!