In this video animation, two galaxies are modeled as they collide and merge. This animation is related to the Chandra x-ray telescope and is part of the Visions of the Universe: Four Centuries of Discovery series, an educational program that was the result of a collaboration between the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and the American Library Association, created with funding from NASA. The video was created with a Sorenson Vector Quantizer 3 codec in a Quicktime wrapper in 2008. Videos are from the Science Media Group, which was in operation at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory from 1989 to 2013.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 17-205, Box 15, SMG110 [ Ссылка ]
