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Thanks to the UCLA Galactic Center: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghezgroup/gc/
Their images/animations were created by Prof. Andrea Ghez and her research team at UCLA and are from data sets obtained with the W. M. Keck Telescopes.
(and I must note that the images included in this video are of simulated accuracy based on anticipated upgrades to the interferometry system - the current real images are equally impressive but slightly less clear: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghezgroup/... )

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After Rome collapsed, Europe was thrown into chaos for about a thousand years. Welcome to the Dark Ages.