Yeah I heard this last night so its recent news to me but I think most people here already know. I'm not sure if its going to happen before or after our sun supernovas..... in fact I dont know the date at all but anyway it would look quite brilliant when it gets close.

Old news it is! However, I think it is going to be before our sun explodes as a supernova because last I heard the sun doesn't have enough mass to do that. If memory serves, the two great galaxies will (start to) collide in about 3 billion years and we'll become an elliptical galaxy or something. Who really knows... wait and see ;) Sun will end her days in about 5 billion years.

Might look something like this http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/large/opo9734i.jpg

Whoa! that looks awesome, you wouldnt even need a telescope to see it when it happens, I wish I could be there when it happens

You just might want to call that the "the ultimate milkshake" :P

Yeah...the only problem is that our solar system will be either blasted from the intense radiation or get flung out into space...never to be seen again......oh well, hope its pretty

We and probably human exisitance will be long gone before that ever happens.
However, It has been known by scientist for years that the Our Milky Way and Andromeda have been slowly creeping towards each other. 
It's not un-common to see galaxies interacting.  M51 is a very good example.

Here are some links you may find interesting that demonstrate what will happen.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/galaxy_collides_020507-1.html
http://haydenplanetarium.org/resources/ava/page/index.php?file=G0601andmilwy
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~dubinski/tflops/



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If you think about it Humans will prob still be around because at the rate we are advansing in technology now.
It will be like war hammer 40000 except 4'999'960'000 years after that so imagine the wars and weapons and what have you

Bert wrote:

You just might want to call that the "the ultimate milkshake" :P

But ya, it would be cool to be there when that happened, to bad we'll all be *long..very long* dead by then, and all human existance.   But at least it won't happen for a very very long time.

That would be the ultimate star party!  Countdown to the end of existence...

Ya.It has already begun....

The human race will probarbly be long gone by then.

 

 

Way to be optimistic!

Hooray!

 

The human race will most likly be populating other planets and worlds, i would love to see it in person but i will be long gone:)

 

Yeah, but I'd still pack at a three-day supply of food, water, etc. like we would for any other disaster!

Mick @ Canyon Lake, Texas USA