Animation Showing Stellar Stream Formation
This animation shows how a globular star cluster, orbiting a still-forming Milky Way Galaxy, can get torn apart by the gravity of the developing galaxy to become the C-19 stellar stream that now orbits the present-day Milky Way.
Credit:Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC)
About the Video
Id: | noirlab2201c |
Release date: | Jan. 5, 2022, 9 a.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2201 |
Duration: | 34 s |
Frame rate: | 29.97 |