M81 and M82 in a gravitational cosmic dance.

 

Galaxies M81 and M82 in Ursa Major. Captured at the JPO using the Seestar S30. Image credit: Kurt Thrust.

"Kurt is sitting in the 'Visitor Centre' after having been discharged from the hospital. With nothing much to do, he asked Google Gemini AI to create a time-lapse video clip of the gravitational interplay between the two spiral galaxies over 25 million years, using the above image and Astrophysics.

Now, here at the JPO, we all take AI with a big 'pinch of salt' and the following video may be more 'scraped' than 'calculated' but we all thought it was worth posting for general interest." - Joel Cairo CEO of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.