The End of the Milky Way

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/515/1?rss=1

"Someday our little corner of the universe will have a ringside seat for one of the biggest events in the cosmos. Two billion years from now, the Milky Way and Andromeda, our closest neighboring galaxy, will begin to fuse into one giant football-shaped galaxy. The gigantic merger will relocate our solar system and thereby change forever the appearance of the constellations, although it's unlikely that any Earthly life will be greatly disturbed."