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July 19, 2001 09:00 AM (EDT)

News Release Number: STScI-2001-22

Star Clusters Born in the Wreckage of Cosmic Collisions

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Video: Galactic Collision Simulation

Running Time: 50 seconds

Animation depicts the wrenching processes unleashed when two galaxies collide. This animation is a rendering of a data simulation that astronomers use to study interacting and colliding galaxies.

Credit: Chris Mihos (Case Western Reserve University), Lars Hernquist (Harvard University), and Frank Summers (STScI)

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