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Dead Earth far future

auteur: Ron Miller/Novapix

référence: t-glb98-00026

Image Size 300 DPI: 29 * 20 cm

Bilions of years hence, the sun will swell, warm, and boil away earth's oceans, transforming our once-verdant world into a desiccated wastleand. Whatever intelligent beings might exist then may gaze over the salt flats of extinct seas at a cosmic spectacle, the slow-motion collision between our Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy, which will trigger a wave of star formation.

Keywords for this photo:

ANDROMEDA - ASTRONOMY - COLLISION - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - END OF EARTH - EVOLUTION - GALAXY - ILLUSTRATION - M31 - MILKY WAY - MOON - NEBULA - NGC 224 - STAR -