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World 6 · When Galaxies Collide · 13 min · PRO

Simulating the unthinkable: how N-body works

What a simulation can and cannot tell you

PRO · Cosmos: Big Bang to Now

World 6: When Galaxies Collide is part of PRO

The first world of Cosmos: Big Bang to Now is free. PRO opens the other 25 lessons in 6 worlds — simulations, quizzes and all.

  • Galaxies are not alone: groups and clusters
  • Tidal tails and mergers
  • Milkomeda: the Milky Way meets Andromeda
  • The first second to the first atoms
  • Dark ages, first stars, first galaxies
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