IT’S hard to know where you’ll be in five years’ time, let alone five billion. But astronomers, it seems, have it all figured out. In five billion years, they say, the sun and Earth – along with any humans left in the solar system – could inhabit “Milkomeda”, the wreckage of a violent collision between the Milky Way and our neighbouring galactic giant, the Andromeda galaxy.
And the fate of our solar system in this clash of the titans? “We’re living in the suburbs of the Milky Way right now, but we’re likely to move much further out after the coming cosmic…
