3 Ways the Milky Way Will Change During Your Lifetime

It’s easy to imagine that our galaxy is basically frozen in time from the perspective of a human lifespan, but in fact, the Milky Way is incredibly dynamic and will undergo some pretty amazing changes in only a few decades! SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-04/ras-itm032918.php https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-milky-way-is-still-growing-surprising-scientists-4bdcb2217d53 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.01546.pdf https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2006/milkyway_seven.html https://www.newscientist.com/article/2079278-ageing-milky-way-stopped-making-stars-before-it-ran-out-of-gas/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/1001.3672.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.1078.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.03042.pdf https://astrobites.org/2014/09/30/measuring-galaxy-star-formation/ https://astrobites.org/2014/09/29/shutting-off-star-formation-in-galaxies/ https://www.eso.org/public/usa/news/eso1838/ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/massive-star-system-primed-intense-explosion https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/how-do-stars-form-and-evolve IMAGE SOURCES: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herschel-galaxy.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1455.html https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1112a/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NGC_5907.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/galaxy-pencil.html https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/hubblecast70b/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ESO_-_Milky_Way.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eagle_Nebula_from_ESO.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:G19_xray.tif https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic0515a/ https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1838a/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31025