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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 …

More at the website of the Bolshoi
Cosmological Simulations
– via Science
Daily

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October 1st, 2011

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Stranger to the World

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