Orion nebula Orion nebula
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Video duration: 164 seconds

Volume visualization of the Orion Nebula
original:http://v is.sdsc.edu/research /orion.html

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To the Moon and Beyond To the Moon and Beyond
Posted by: mpcb

Video duration: 236 seconds

NASA Exploration Launch Projects

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Edge of the Solar system Edge of the Solar system
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Video duration: 34 seconds

This still shows the locations of Voyagers 1 and 2. Voyager 1 is traveling a lot and has crossed into the heliosheath, the region where interstellar gas and solar wind start to mix. Click on the image for movie or download color print resolution still and black & white still. Credit: NASA/Walt Feimer

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Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy
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Video duration: 46 seconds

This is an animation of 3C321.
Reference: http://chandra.harva rd.edu/photo/2007/3c 321/

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Galaxy merging Galaxy merging
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Video duration: 57 seconds

A simulation of the Andromeda - Milky Way merger by M. Steinmetz (AIP)

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Black hole merge Black hole merge
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Video duration: 30 seconds

The simulation of gravitational waves churned by the collision of black holes.
Made by the Columbia Supercomputer at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing Facility at Ames Research Center.

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GRB burst GRB burst
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Video duration: 14 seconds

A computer animation of a gamma-ray burst/supernovae viewed from a distance.
(Credit: NASA/Skyworks Digital)

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Adaptive Optics system Adaptive Optics system
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Video duration: 20 seconds

The Adaptive Optics system "closing the loop" on this target (ADS 8939). Note how the binary nature of the star is completely hidden by the blurring of the atmosphere, but then after the loop is closed it is clearly a binary star. (Movie Credit: Guido Brusa, CAAO, Steward Observatory (gbrusa@as.arizona.e du) http://athene.as.ari zona.edu/~lclose/AOP RESS/)

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Cosmology background radiation (CMB) Cosmology background radiation (CMB)
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Video duration: 3 seconds

An all-sky image of the infant Universe, 379,000 years after the Big Bang. In 1992, NASA's COBE mission first detected tiny temperature fluctuations (shown as color variations) in the infant universe. The WMAP image brings the COBE picture into sharp focus. Credit: WMAP group

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