Always check model numbers against what you think you’re buying. Sometimes they use the same number with a slight change, like a few numbers or letters added to it. If it’s different, that’s the Black Friday version with extra-cheap capacitors and last year’s recycled panel.
My cat anticipates where I’m going and stands in the way or walks slowly. He seems to think if I trip on him then he deserves extra food or treats as compensation. It’s cat insurance fraud and it’s ruining the economy.
Considering it takes 230 million years for the sun to orbit the Milky Way one time, my amateur opinion is that these images take place over the course of a long fucking time.
As far as getting pulverized by the collision - that’s unlikely, as the stars are so far apart within each galaxy, it’s unlikely many, if any stars or planets would directly touch another. But I imagine all sorts of life would evolve and die off within that timeframe, all without the perspective to appreciate what’s happening at the cosmic scale.
This article has some photos of what the sky would look like when the Milky Way and Andromeda collide in 4-6 billion years, if that weren’t long after our atmosphere is boiled off by our own star: en.wikipedia.org/…/Andromeda–Milky_Way_collision
It has the sort/filter options I think you’re looking for, and it doesn’t limit info to your instance’s perspective. (It always shows all instances, even if your home instance hasn’t made a connection to one yet, and it shows total subscribers across all instances.)
Click the !URL for an instance to copy it, then paste it in your home instance search bar to go there and subscribe.
Another useful resource is c/trendingcommunities@feddit.nl - not helpful for searching, but handy to check daily after you’ve built your subscriptions and want to see suggestions for growing communities.
Regular search features are lacking a bit due to the nature of federated servers. Hopefully these features will be added someday. Till then, dedicated sites like lemmyverse seem to be the best option.