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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Bravo, wonderful!
Ah yes CDK images. I look forward to taking some more of my own soon.
I wonder how disruptive it is to solar systems within these galaxies when they merge like this? I suppose most are not affected much as galaxies are mostly huge volumes of space but gravitational forces must slowly cause some changes.
Greg.
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On this, I did a statistical simulation of the Milky Way and Andromeda collision a few years ago and both galaxies would have to pass through one another in their entirety 6-7 times before there would be a collision.
Now disruptions and collisions are two very different things but it gives a bit of an idea of how little disruptions there are. I guess you’d statistically expect a major disruption or two when hundreds of billions of stars are being forced together
