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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

🌌 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

Simulating the Universe

Date: 1995-11-08

Simulating the Universe

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Explanation:

The above cube represents a chunk of our universe as simulated by the Grand Challenge Cosmology Consortium (GC3). The cube is huge - it would take light 500 million years to cross it. Low density gas is shown as blue, and high density gas as red. In the beginning of the