{"id":86660,"date":"2019-01-14T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/our-galaxy-is-due-for-a-catastrophic-collision-study-says"},"modified":"2019-01-14T10:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:22:44","slug":"our-galaxy-is-due-for-a-catastrophic-collision-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/our-galaxy-is-due-for-a-catastrophic-collision-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Our galaxy is due for a catastrophic collision, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-galaxy-is-due-for-a-catastrophic-collision-study-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>(CNN) \u2014 <\/strong>While astronomers estimate that the Andromeda galaxy will collide with our own Milky Way galaxy 8 billion years from now, they now believe that another collision will happen even sooner.<\/p>\n<p>The Large Magellanic Cloud will catastrophically collide with the Milky Way in 2 billion years, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mnras\/article\/483\/2\/2185\/5181341\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published this month in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The impact, which they believe is long overdue, has a chance of sending our solar system \u201churtling through space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our galaxy is orbited by smaller satellite galaxies, the kind of dance that can go on undisturbed for billions of years. Other times, things take a violent turn, and satellite galaxies can migrate toward the Milky Way until they collide and are gobbled up.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/cnnphilippines.com\/world\/2019\/01\/14\/milky-way-catastrophic-collision.html\">http:\/\/cnnphilippines.com\/world\/2019\/01\/14\/milky-way-catastrophic-collision.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) \u2014 While astronomers estimate that the Andromeda galaxy will collide with our own Milky Way galaxy 8 billion years from now, they now believe that another collision will happen even sooner. The Large Magellanic Cloud will catastrophically collide with the Milky Way in 2 billion years, according to a study published this month in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}