Gallery: Explore the Cosmos With This Bonkers Interactive Model

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    By clicking a model from the side panel, you can switch what type of connections bind galaxies together.
  • You can rotate and zoom into the model.
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    You can rotate and zoom into the model.
  • By clicking and dragging a region in the histogram you change the number of connections per galaxy.
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    By clicking and dragging a region in the histogram, you change the number of connections per galaxy.
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