10/03/2011

Bolshoi Cosmological Simulations



Astronomers have completed the Bolshoi simulations - the aptly named supercomputer simulations of the cosmos (bolshoi means "great" in Russian), and the result is fantastic.

Here's a video clip of the Bolshoi Fly-Through by Anatoly Klypin and Joel Primack, visualized by Chris Henze at NASA Ames Research Center. I gather there's a Pale Blue Dot somewhere in there ...

0 diners / comensales:

Publicar un comentario