clipped from: space.newscientist.com It's hard to know where you'll be in five years' time, never mind 5 billion. But astronomers have it all figured out. In 5 billion years, they say, the Sun and Earth – along with our atomic remains and any living Earthlings – will inhabit "Milkomeda", the wreckage of a violent collision between the Milky Way and the giant Andromeda galaxy.
Now a new study has simulated the crash and asked: where will the Sun end up in this mammoth galactic union? "We're living in the suburbs of the Milky Way right now, but we're likely to move much farther out after the coming cosmic smash-up," concludes T J Cox from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.
