Copyright

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Credits

Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute, Office of Public Outreach

All images, illustrations, and videos courtesy of NASA, ESA, and STScI except:

• Taurus constellation drawing from Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia by Johannes Hevelius, courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory
• Large galaxy collision animation courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, B. Robertson, L. Hernquist
• Expanding universe animation courtesy of NASA
• Andromeda Galaxy image courtesy of Digitized Sky Survey 2, acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)
• Animated pan through Milky Way courtesy of ESO/M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble
• Animation of stars moving courtesy of Frank Summers (STScI)
• Animation of random stellar orbits courtesy of NCSA, UCLA / Keck
• Milky Way formation animation copyright Prof. Romain Teyssier (University of Zurich)
• Major and minor galaxy merger animations copyright Dr. Benjamin Moster (Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics)
• Fly-around animation of Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy courtesy of David Law (Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto)
• Animation of two colliding spiral galaxies courtesy of Volker Springel, Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics

• Music courtesy of Associated Production Music

• Written by Vanessa Thomas and John Stoke
• Designed by John Godfrey and Marc Lussier