What Night Sky Photographs Will Look Like Over the Next 7 Billion Years
What Night Sky Photographs Will Look Like Over the Next 7 Billion Years
Michael Zhang · Jun 01, 2012
NASA astronomers announced today that they are certain that our galaxy is on an unavoidable collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest spiral galaxy to us. Don’t worry though, it won’t be happening for another 3.5 billion years or so. What’s interesting is that the collision will drastically change what our night sky looks like, and the astronomers released a series of photo illustrations showing what future astrophotographers will be shooting when they point their cameras at the heavens.