#HTE

You live in the right galaxy: Milky Way to eat Small Magellanic Cloud even sooner

You’ve only got a few billion years, little buddy

Astronomers have long known the nearby galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, was being monstered by the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud. But new imaging captured by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) has made it clear that the little star-factory has only a handful of billion years left.…

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/28/the_milky_way_is_going_to_eat_the_small_magellanic_cloud/