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Cosmic Queries: Gravity

StarTalk Radio

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The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy Collide

We're falling towards one another. So that's kind of when it's love for a side. And we think it was meant to be. By the way, it'll be a spectacular train wreck, but we will survive it for sure. Unless there's a fly, we the solar system, unless there's a sort of a fly by looting of our planets, the stars are so far away from one another that they will just pass through. What won't pass through one another are huge gas clouds where stars are born. If one gas cloud collides with another, they will stick together like two heart marshmallows passing in the night. When they stick, they will ignite huge waves

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