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FlyingSpacefrog t1_j1lyuki wrote

Reply to comment by Aarcn in Is the Milky Way... Normal? by cciccitrixx

Yes because the sun will be nearing its end of life at the same time and expanding into a red giant that will stretch out to fill the space currently occupied by the planets Venus and Mercury, and possibly the earth as well.

But the actual galactic merger is unlikely to see stars get close enough to disrupt the orbits of planets around our star. The orbits of stars themselves around the galaxy will change in unexpected ways.

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