Space is ever changing and its fascinating to think about what space would be like a 100 years from today. Here are some facts:
1. The Andromeda galaxy
The Andromeda galaxy will be the biggest change in the skies when viewed from Earth. Currently at 2.5 million light years from the milky way, the Galaxy is known to be moving towards the milky way. A hundred years from today, the galaxy will be much more prominent in the sky. The collision between the galaxies will occur a few billion years from today and should not affect the position of the Earth allowing human existence to continue. The galaxy is known to be twice the size of the milky way. The image shows you a future representation of what the galaxy might look like from the Earth a hundred years from today. Unfortunately for now the galaxy is only visible as a diffused cloud and we can only see it side making it difficult to spot in the Sky.
2. The Sun
Long term secular change in sunspot number is thought by some scientists to be correlated with long term change in solar irradiance. For example in the 17th century, scientists observed a pause in the solar cycles of the sun and this had a drastic effect on Earth also known as the little Ice age experienced by Europe. It is known that these changes take place every 41,000-100,000 years and are considered to be a valid reason for the Pleistocene Ice age that began 1.8 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago. apart from this the Sun will act like any other star and expand once the Hydrogen fusion in its core has stopped. According to scientists, the sun has remained stable for 4 billion years and will remain stable for 4 billion more years. So a hundred years from today the sun might not become a monster but it will get hotter as it is getting hotter every second due to the Hydrogen fusion.
3. Pluto
A hundred years from today Pluto would have reached its furthest point from the sun. Today Pluto is known to have barely started its journey away from the Sun. It takes Pluto 248 years to go around the sun which means after a hundred years it should have reached approximately near the furthest point from the Sun in its orbit. As Pluto moves away from the Sun it will have the tendency to lose its atmosphere due to extremely chilly temperatures. The atmosphere will collapse into the planet. This kind of climate change has never been observed in any other planet of the solar system. Scientists have found out that thanks to the Earth's rotation rate, the speed of the suns rotation is reducing by 0.00003 seconds per year. This is affecting the angular momentum of the Sun causing the Earth to move away from our Star. So its safe to assume that every planet is having the same affect on the Sun. So maybe a hundred years from today the solar system might have 8 visible planets with Pluto flying into interstellar Space.
4. Humans in Space
Humans will be able to get a pretty good experience of Space a hundred years from now. With companies already running contests for people to go to Space, it won't be long before Space travel will be like air travel today. Mars and the moon might act as second colonies in a hundred years allowing people to live on these planets and spend their holidays. It seems unreal but everything that we have today seemed unreal a hundred years back so the possibilities are endless.
5. More Earth like planets
We might possibly look for colonisation of different worlds as Earth doesn't look like its going to stay for a very long time. In a hundred years, we should be able to start the large colonisation movement and send life to other planets increasing the existence of the Human race. Currently NASA uses the International Space Station to conduct experiments for these purposes. The milky way is alone estimated to have over 2 billion Earth like planets. The only problem is the distance which makes it impossible to reach these planets within the human life span. Maybe travelling faster than light might become a possibility a hundred years from now.
These were some facts about Space a hundred years from now. As incredible as it seems most of us won't be there to experience it first hand. Anyway we should feel lucky enough to already know what it would be like a hundred years from today.
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Humans will be able to get a pretty good experience of Space a hundred years from now. With companies already running contests for people to go to Space, it won't be long before Space travel will be like air travel today. Mars and the moon might act as second colonies in a hundred years allowing people to live on these planets and spend their holidays. It seems unreal but everything that we have today seemed unreal a hundred years back so the possibilities are endless.
5. More Earth like planets
We might possibly look for colonisation of different worlds as Earth doesn't look like its going to stay for a very long time. In a hundred years, we should be able to start the large colonisation movement and send life to other planets increasing the existence of the Human race. Currently NASA uses the International Space Station to conduct experiments for these purposes. The milky way is alone estimated to have over 2 billion Earth like planets. The only problem is the distance which makes it impossible to reach these planets within the human life span. Maybe travelling faster than light might become a possibility a hundred years from now.These were some facts about Space a hundred years from now. As incredible as it seems most of us won't be there to experience it first hand. Anyway we should feel lucky enough to already know what it would be like a hundred years from today.
Thanks for reading!
