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this is http://www.milkywaybar.com/products.shtml

that's just a bunch of hershey....

Bake

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/31may_andromeda/

May 31, 2012: NASA astronomers say they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.

The Milky Way is destined to get a major makeover during the encounter, which is predicted to happen four billion years from now. It is likely the sun will be flung into a new region of our galaxy, but our Earth and solar system are in no danger of being destroyed.

"After nearly a century of speculation about the future destiny of Andromeda and our Milky Way, we at last have a clear picture of how events will unfold over the coming billions of years," says Sangmo Tony Sohn of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore.

"Our findings are statistically consistent with a head-on collision between the Andromeda galaxy and our Milky Way galaxy," adds Roeland van der Marel of the STScI.

Underlined part is utter BS! The sun will have already scorched the living bejeezus out of our lovely planet by then if Gliese 710 and other close encounters will have left (yeah! I used the future perfect!) us intact.

this image is a fake, in the sense that the ground and sky are two separate images photoshopped together. The bottom appears to be a painting, actually.

I've seen the Milky Way from the high Rocky Mountains, far away from any civilization. With all the visibility, it can't light up any of the ground, and moonlight would make it far less visible, too.