The Millky Way and Andromitia Galixy Merger

[Auscreely]

Will the Millky Way and Andromitia Galixy Merger be seen in celestia?
This would be so cool, to see two galixys colide and combine.
Is this going to be posible?

[Stargazer_2098]

There currently exists two public Galactic Incidents Simulators; being Alessandro Ghignola's StarWays and Adrian Lark's Gravity 3D.

Both of these simulators uses the gravity of the galactic core, and applies this gravity to every star in a galaxy, making for some truly spetecular galactic collisions and other incidents.

I belive StarWays is the most realistic and has most features of the two, while Gravity 3D has better graphics.

I also hope that it will one day be possible to use such Gravity-simulation technology with Celestia, which might be possible in the future.


Stargazer.

[julesstoop]

There is Toomre&Toomre from Vincent Icke (a Leiden University astronomy professor). It's quite old, 2d, and Mac OS classic only, but the applied model is very realistic.

ftp://ftp.strw.leidenuniv.nl/pub/icke/V ... re.sea.bin

[Buzz]

I like GCollider that you will find on SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/gcollider/