What would the Milky Way look like from the Andromeda Galaxy?

Andromeda has an inclination angle of about 77° — meaning, as you said, we see it nearly edge-on. If those inhabitants also live in Andromeda’s stellar disk and near the center of the galaxy, the Andromedans would see the Milky Way at an inclination angle of about 68°, similar to our view of their galaxy.

Are there any other galaxies like the Milky Way?

Spiral Galaxy NGC 3949: A Galaxy Similar to the Milky Way.

What happens if the Milky Way collides with another galaxy?

The result of the collision between Andromeda and the Milky Way will be a new, larger galaxy, but rather than being a spiral like its forebears, this new system ends up as a giant elliptical. The pair will end up forming a binary at the heart of the new, larger galaxy.

Can we travel from one galaxy to another galaxy?

The technology required to travel between galaxies is far beyond humanity’s present capabilities, and currently only the subject of speculation, hypothesis, and science fiction. However, theoretically speaking, there is nothing to conclusively indicate that intergalactic travel is impossible.

Can the Earth survive Andromeda collision?

Astronomers estimate that 3.75 billion years from now, Earth will be caught up amid the largest galactic event in our planet’s history, when these two giant galaxies collide. Luckily, experts think that Earth will survive, but it won’t be entirely unaffected.

What is the largest galaxy in the universe?

IC 1101
The biggest known galaxy is IC 1101, which is 50 times the Milky Way’s size and about 2,000 times more massive. It is about 5.5 million light-years across. Nebulas, or vast clouds of gas, also have impressively large sizes.

What is a dead galaxy?

The “dead” moniker describes the fact that these galaxies no longer have the necessary cold hydrogen gas to make stars. Without the gas, there’s no clumping of matter that eventually leads to the formation of a star. NASA / Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

Is the Milky Way dying?

Actually, the Milky Way may have died at least once around 7 billion years ago; it revived after a period of 2 billion years, during which a whole bunch of stars died, going supernova and ejecting their outer envelopes into space, filling the galaxy with material for making new stars.

What planets are in Andromeda?

Astronomers announced a possible planet in the nearby Andromeda galaxy in 2009, but its presence has not yet been confirmed. So this makes the newly found planet, called HIP 13044 b, the first to be discovered around a star apparently from another galaxy.