Stellar Collisions and Cosmic Catastrophes

Scientific Visualizations

The Conference

A scientific confernce on Stellar Collisions and Mergers will be held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on May 31 - June 2, 2000. Detailed information can be found at this website:

http://www.amnh.org/rose/stellar/

The Visualization Events

Interview -- Conference Chair Mike Shara discusses the conference and the visualizations. 160 x 120 resolution uncompressed quicktime file. WARNING: this is a 59 MB file. Click here to download 59 MB quicktime movie

Stellar Collisions Visualization Showcase - On Tuesday evening May 30th, as part of the opening reception for the conference, we will showcase scientific visualizations in the dome of the Hayden Planetarium. The reception and Showcase is by invitation only.

Cosmic Catastrophes - On Thursday evening June 1, a public presentation will be held in the IMAX Theater at the American Museum of Natural History from 7 to 9 PM. Tickets are free, but must be reserved in advance by calling 212-769-5200. Seating is first come-first served for ticket holders.

program listing

Scientific Visualizations

Only 8 of the 10 visualizations below have pages linked to them.
The remaining two are unavailable for access via the web.

Collision of Unequal Mass Stars	Collisions of Main Sequence Stars
Neutron Star Collisions	Gravitational Waves, Star Clusters, and Black Holes
Evolution of a Star Cluster	Asteroid Impact on Earth
Origin of the Moon	Destruction of a Satellite by the Milky Way
Collision of Two Spiral Galaxies	Evolution of a Compact Group of Galaxies

Copyright & Credits

All usage must be cleared with the respective authors, as listed in the credits. This includes posting on other web sites and any other electronic, print, or media distribution.

Last modified: May 23, 2000