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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft (DART) collided with asteroid Dimorphos in an experiment designed to measure how much such an impact can change the orbit of an asteroid.
The stabilized animation was created with images from NASA's live broadcast and the 5 1/2min video posted on their web site. It starts the moment Dimorphos becomes visible.
More details and dimensions in the image description.
Title and credits style mimics the '50s 
@65dBnoise if you ever feel compelled to remake this at a slower pace, you should mirror it too 
@sharponlooker
Compelled, no. I did this within 24 hours from the event, and took me a lot of time and effort to stabilize and process the frames. Mirror it? only after the experts do. This one (with hiccups and halo) was posted today, more than 1 1/2 months after the event:
https://mastodon.social/@asrivkin/109332698713174345
so... ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄
But why slower? My whole point was dramatization, hence the hard impact and the oversized titles. For detail and science, one's got to use the PDS and read the papers, no?
@65dBnoise yours is the only one I remember having seen stabilized except for this one centered on the primary
https://nitter.42l.fr/_RomanTkachenko/status/1574623048262631426?s=19
Stabilization & lower pace help me better remember the excitement of that last hour. Also, I was more enthralled by Didymos than its moon
I absolutely respect your author's choice, I'm well aware what an undertaking that stabilization is
The mirroring tho, bit of a nuisance. Ppl r gonna b confused when later releases don't match what we saw live
@sharponlooker
Great video! 
I expected a better video from NASA, a video that would make an impact :)
Mirroring the gif is one click away, but it would definitely confuse people, so no point in doing it now.