The Milky Way is Doomed! Our Milky Way galaxy is doomed. Scientists using the Hubble telescope have determined it will be destroyed -- 4 billion years from now, when it collides with the Andromeda galaxy. This artist's conception shows how the sky might look as the galaxies are drawn together by each other's gravity. Z. Levay, R. van der Marel, and A. Mellinger/ESA/NASA