Space
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mike hawkins – the blog
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Fairly spectacular computer simulation of a galaxy's birth – I've used the Youtube video because of the odd choice of seventies porn movie music as a backing track, on the New Scientist version.
This epic time-lapse shows the Milky Way forming and evolving over 13.7 billion years… Developed by a team led by Piero Madau from the University of California in Santa Cruz and Javiera Guedes from the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Zurich, it's the most detailed simulation of a galaxy's evolution yet made. Unlike previous attempts, the massive galaxy that appears closely resembles the Milky Way – with its central strip of bright stars surrounded by spiral arms swirling in a flat disc.
See the full article and related items on the New Scientist site – here
Very cool photo taken by a crew member of the International Space Station. Shows the cities of Europe illuminated.
Visit the NASA Earth Observatory for further information.
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