Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
A computer simulation that shows the orbits
of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds around our galaxy.
The movie sequence starts just over gigayear (a thousand million
years) ago. It finishes 0.25 Gyr (250 million years) in the future.
The total duration is thus 1.35 thousand million years. The present
day "Now" is marked by a pause in the sequence.
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Copyright notice: The simulation was produced by P.S.
Li, University of Wyoming and Harley A. Thronson, NASA, with support
from NASA and NCSA. Copyright 1998 Board of Trustees, University
of Wyoming.
Updated 20 August 1998