# Evolution of the Universe: Large-scale Structure and Galaxy Formation

Visual excerpt from the PBS HDTV ''Runaway Universe'', courtesy WGBH-NOVA and Tom Lucas Productions.The Adaptive Mesh Refinement simulation grid automatically refines into subgrids to develop small-scale features, generating over half a terabyte of data. We see gravitation forming nested hierarchies which vary many orders of magnitude. Tiny fluctuations in the density of the early universe are amplified into a network of interconnected filaments. Condensing gas clouds give birth to new stars and merge into whirling galaxies which congregate, collide, and interact in a fiery cosmic dance.

- Kind: Cartoon
- Year: 2001
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: Donna Cox (visualization), Tom Lucas (NOVA)
- Genres: Animation
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/Evolutio2001)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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