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Almost certainly not, or at least not within the lifetime of the human race. Beyond 3 billion years, all bets are off, as that's about when the Milky Way will begin to collide with the Andromeda galaxy.

"Collide" may be too strong a word. Neither galaxy is a solid object, so it won't be like two cars colliding; it would be more like two flocks of birds colliding, with each bird swerving to avoid the other birds. In the end, each flock would have been diverted from their original paths, and some birds from one flock might have gone off with the other. Galactic collisions are fairly common; we have photos of several from the Hubble Space Telescope, and there are indications that the Milky Way has collided with - or merged with! - other galaxies before.

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