#HTE

Forget 2019’s tech biz takeovers, here’s the mega-merger everyone’s talking about: Milky Way and LMC, coming soon

And by soon, we mean, two billion years

It has long been known that our Milky Way is on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy, with the epic prang to take place in four to eight billion years’ time. New data suggests we’ll hit another galaxy well before that, though, and the super-smash could send our Solar System headfirst on a path out of the Milky Way.…

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/04/solar_system_collision/