In roughly 4 billion years our Milky Way Galaxy and nearby Andromeda Galaxy will collide and merge over the course of several billion years. However, the immense distance between individual stars makes actual stellar collisions extremely unlikely.
Source: Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (Episode 3 - “When Knowledge Conquered Fear”)
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