Space.com #Massive Gas Cloud Will Collide With Milky Way, Eventually | Video 10 October 2016 fborgosano Leave a comment Share: Smith’s Cloud, named after an astronomy student that discovered it in 1963,will collide with the “Perseus Arm” of the Milky Way galaxy in about 30 million years. It will result in a “brilliant burst of star formation,” according to NASA. from Space.com ift.tt/2e04yY2 Share: