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Disclaimer: The pictures and art posted in this blog belong to their artists and photographers. They retain all rights. Tumblr is just a fun place to share and re-blog. If you see a photo that belongs to you and you wish for it to be removed, please contact me and it will be done so immediately.
Don't be afraid to ask astronomy questions! One of the three members will respond. -Emily, Melissa, Jenn, and George
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![Scientists have generated the largest and most realistic simulations of the evolving universe to date with the aid of NASA’s powerful supercomputer, dubbed Pleiades.
By running the “Bolshoi” simulation code on Pleiades, researchers hope to explain how galaxies and other very large structures in the universe have changed since the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. [Video of the Bolshoi universe simulation]
The Bolshoi code took 18 days and millions of hours of computer time split up among more than 160,000 processors to finish running on Pleiades, which is the seventh most powerful supercomputer in the world.
Read more here.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsgr1qcREz1qzelcho1_500.jpg)
Scientists have generated the largest and most realistic simulations of the evolving universe to date with the aid of NASA’s powerful supercomputer, dubbed Pleiades.
By running the “Bolshoi” simulation code on Pleiades, researchers hope to explain how galaxies and other very large structures in the universe have changed since the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. [Video of the Bolshoi universe simulation]
The Bolshoi code took 18 days and millions of hours of computer time split up among more than 160,000 processors to finish running on Pleiades, which is the seventh most powerful supercomputer in the world.
Read more here.
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