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The image shown below is a volume rendering from a simulation of the formation of a
binary Population III stellar system. Population III stars are the first
stars to form in the universe, and contribute to the formation of galaxies
like our own Milky Way. In this image, the field of view is about 2,000
astronomical units across (one astronomical unit is the distance between
the Earth and the Sun, or about 93 million miles). The two yellow clumps
are the gas clouds in which the two stars are being born. The image shown
below is
taken from a simulation done by Matthew Turk, Tom Abel, and Brian O'Shea, and
was part of a research project that was published in the journal Science. The image was created by Ralf Kaehler.
(Click on the image to view a larger version.)
The image shown below is a volume rendering from one of the
largest AMR cosmological simulations done to date, and shows structures
in the universe on the largest scales. The field of view is approximately
two billion light years across, and the image shows the the "cosmic web" of
filaments that are formed, and the clusters of galaxies that form at the
intersection of these filaments. This simulation has been used
as a part of
three
research
projects
that have all been published in
The Astrophysical Journal.
The image was created by
Matt Hall at the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
(Click on the image to view a larger version.)
