The Roadster has since been on one hell of a journey, driving away from Earth at the impressive speed of 26,619 kilometers per hour (16,540 miles per hour), with an arguably more impressive fuel efficiency of 8,511.4 kilometers per liter (20,020 miles per gallon).

Fortunately for Musk, this will happen on a timescale of millions of years, and is unlikely to affect Tesla stock prices.

The Starman placed in the vehicle, assuming it is still intact and somehow achieves sentience, may pray for a sooner impact.

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Many examples of galactic mergers at various stages have been found out there in the wider Universe, but it's a slow process that can take millions to billions of years.

This is what scientists expected to see when they turned the infrared Spitzer Space Telescope to a galaxy merger 500 million light-years away called IIZw096 in 2010.

(Inami et al., ApJL, 2023)The researchers also identified 12 smaller sources of mid-infrared light in the JWST data, clustered around the bright "engine".

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For example, red giants are incredibly bright but have relatively cool surfaces — something that can't happen to a hydrogen-burning main sequence star.

At first, that newly merged star will be both massive and large, with its outer surface flung far away from the core due to the enormous rotation after the collision.

But eventually, some astrophysical process (perhaps strong magnetic fields) drags down the rotation rate of the star, causing it to slow down and settle into equilibrium.

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Though the James Webb Space Telescope has been making waves in astronomy by discovering massive celestial objects sometimes as far away as billions of light-years, the new finding demonstrates the powerful instrument's unpredicted usefulness much closer to home.

The main asteroid belt is located between Mars and Jupiter and contains millions of space rocks formed from material leftover from the birth of the solar system over 4.5 billion years ago.

"This is a fantastic result which highlights the capabilities of MIRI to serendipitously detect a previously undetectable size of asteroid in the main belt," JWST support scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Bryan Holler said.

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