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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