• Great Blue Heron
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    1 month ago

    Oh, wow. I expected someone to correct me and say it will be much sooner due to the size of the two galaxies but didn’t think I was that far off.

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      1 month ago

      Extremely technical use of “technically” - we’re talking about maybe 1 atom of hydrogen per cubic meter, but if that atom is bound by a galaxy’s gravity it sort of is part of that galaxy, kinda.