{"id":70366,"date":"2018-05-12T06:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T10:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=70366"},"modified":"2018-05-05T21:24:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T01:24:49","slug":"the-andromeda-milky-way-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=70366","title":{"rendered":"The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Andromeda galaxy is heading straight toward our own Milky Way. The two galaxies will inevitably collide. Will that be the very last night sky our solar system witnesses?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_P1xKh_kZFU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can further support us on Patreon at <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Fpbsspacetime&amp;v=_P1xKh_kZFU&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=okQqvTbOXTdsHMdn2W9Yn8MvKGt8MTUyNTY1NjAyOEAxNTI1NTY5NjI4\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get your own Space Time t\u00ad-shirt at <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1QlzoBi&amp;v=_P1xKh_kZFU&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=okQqvTbOXTdsHMdn2W9Yn8MvKGt8MTUyNTY1NjAyOEAxNTI1NTY5NjI4\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1QlzoBi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime<br \/>\nFacebook: facebook.com\/pbsspacetime<br \/>\nEmail us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com<br \/>\nComment on Reddit: <a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fpbsspacetime&amp;v=_P1xKh_kZFU&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=okQqvTbOXTdsHMdn2W9Yn8MvKGt8MTUyNTY1NjAyOEAxNTI1NTY5NjI4\">http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pbsspacetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See that fuzzy blob on the sky? The one just left of the Milky Way center in the constellation of Andromeda. That\u2019s M31 \u2013 the Andromeda galaxy. It\u2019s two and a half million light years away and host to a trillion stars. It has a beautiful spiral structure spanning its gently rotating disk 220 thousand light years in diameter, and a central bulge that hides a giant black hole that contains the mass of well over a hundred million Suns. Andromeda is also racing towards our galaxy at 110 km\/s.<\/p>\n<p>Written and Hosted by Matt O&#8217;Dowd<br \/>\nProduced by Rusty Ward<br \/>\nGraphics by Grayson Blackmon<br \/>\nAssistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow and Linda Huang<br \/>\nMade by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)<\/p>\n<p>Comments Matt responded to include:<\/p>\n<p>The Exoplanets Channel<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-R9F2_D76TE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-R9F2&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patrick Horgan<br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-R9F2_D76TE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-R9F2&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Andromeda galaxy is heading straight toward our own Milky Way. The two galaxies will inevitably collide. Will that be the very last night sky our solar system witnesses? You can further support us on Patreon at https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pbsspacetime Get your own Space Time t\u00ad-shirt at http:\/\/bit.ly\/1QlzoBi Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com\/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pbsspacetime See that fuzzy blob on the sky? The one just left of the Milky Way center in the constellation of Andromeda. That\u2019s M31 \u2013 the Andromeda galaxy. It\u2019s two and a half million light years away and host to a trillion stars. It has a beautiful spiral structure spanning its gently rotating disk 220 thousand light years in diameter, and a central bulge that hides a giant black hole that contains the mass of well over a hundred million Suns. Andromeda is also racing towards our galaxy at 110 km\/s. Written and Hosted by Matt O&#8217;Dowd Produced by Rusty Ward Graphics by Grayson Blackmon Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow and Linda Huang Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Comments Matt responded to include: The Exoplanets Channel https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-R9F2&#8230; Patrick Horgan https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-R9F2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[97,551,853],"class_list":["post-70366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edu","tag-education","tag-education-saturday","tag-space-time"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70367,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70366\/revisions\/70367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}