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A simulation of the collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies.

Milky Way–Andromeda Galaxy Collision

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 Movie showing the environment around a supermassive black hole.

Centaurus A: Feeding a Black Hole

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 See clusters of galaxies change over time, including the structure and dynamics of the galaxies within them.

Clusters of Galaxies: Dynamics & Structure

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 Two gas-rich galaxies colliding head-on.

Mergers of Gas-Rich Disk Galaxies

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Two spiral galaxies collide: one rotates clockwise, the other counterclockwise.

A Prograde-Retrograde Galaxy Collision

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 Watch a small satellite galaxy fall into a large spiral galaxy.

Galaxies Colliding: Edge-On View

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 Watch as our Milky Way Galaxy turns an interloping dwarf galaxy into spaghetti.

The Milky Way's Gravitational Power

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 See what happens to a comet when it collides with a Jupiter-like planet.

Comet Impact with a Gaseous Planet: The Comet

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Video showing what happens to the atmosphere of a Jupiter-like planet during a comet collision.

Comet Impact with a Gaseous Planet: The Atmosphere

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 A sequence of images from the NEAR spacecraft showing the rotation of the asteroid 433 Eros.

The Rotation of Eros

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 Movie showing the Io torus, a ring of gas surrounding Jupiter, wobbling as Jupiter rotates.

The Io Torus of Jupiter

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 The Hubble Space Telescope reveals Pluto's diverse surface features, including a wide range of surface ices.

The Surface of Pluto

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The surface of Venus is revealed through the use of radar telescopes.

The Topography of Venus

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 An animation showing the phases of the Moon.

Phases of the Moon

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 A visualization showing the solar atmosphere by stitching together multi-wavelength images.

The Sun's Atmosphere

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 A movie of the total solar eclipse of November, 1994.

Total Eclipse of the Sun

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Video showing a magnetic storm on Earth from the IMAGE satellite.

A Magnetic Storm on Earth

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 Time-lapse animation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and cloud bands.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot

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 Movie of Jupiter's moon, Io, being eclipsed by Jupiter. In the darkness, volcanoes and aurorae are seen.

Io in Eclipse

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 Animation showing the changing polar ice cap on Mars.

Martian Polar Ice Cap

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Video showing seasons on Uranus as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Seasons on Uranus

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 An animation showing the rotation of the planet Neptune over a 16-hour period.

Rotation of Neptune

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 The seasons of Saturn are shown in an animation composed from a series of HST images.

Seasons on Saturn

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 Movie of a solar flare, a tremendous explosion on the surface of the Sun.

A Solar Flare

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Data from the Mars Global Surveyor is used to create a global topographical map.

Rotation of Mars

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 The Mars Global Surveyor reveals a growing dust storm from June, 2001 in this movie.

Martian Dust Storm

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 Video of a collision of two stars with a mass ratio of two to one.

Stellar Encounters

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 Movie of two neutron stars merging.

Binary Neutron Star Collision

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Movie of two stars colliding.

Stellar Collisions in Globular Clusters

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 Animation of a planetary nebula being created by a red giant binary.

Creating a Planetary Nebula

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 Sequence of images showing greater detail on star-formation reguins in the Orion Nebula.

The Formation of Stars

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 Video shows mass transfer in the binary star Algol (Beta Persei).

Mass Transfer in Binary Stars

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Supernova 1987A simulation movie showing the supernova blast crashing into a ring of cold, dark gas.

Ring Around Supernova 1987A

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 Movie showing a simulation of a star cluster evolving in time.

Evolution of a Star Cluster

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 Simulation of the interaction between a supernova blastwave from SN 1987A and a circumstellar shell surrounding the supernova.

Modeling a Supernova Blast Wave

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 An video showing a neutron star collecting mass from its companion star via its wind.

Violent Stellar Winds in an X-ray binary system

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Movie showing the view of space just above the event horizon of a black hole.

View from a Black Hole's Edge

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 A movie showing a 3-D representaiton of the cosmic microwave background radiation.

The Cosmic Mircowave Background

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 Simulation of structure formation under the influence of dark matter.

Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation

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 Simulation demonstrating the warping of light from galaxy clusters and accompanying dark matter.

Gravitational Lensing and Dark Matter

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A movie showing the formation and evolution of x-ray clusters and galaxy clusters.

Formation of X-Ray Clusters

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