Visualization of the Milky Way Galaxy at 16 Million to 13.7 Billion Years Old (IMAGE)

U.S. National Science Foundation

Visualization of the Milky Way Galaxy at 16 Million to 13.7 Billion Years Old

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This image, taken from a visualization created by the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), shows the formation of the Milky Way galaxy at 16 million to 13.7 billion years old. Brian O'Shea of Michigan State University (formerly of Los Alamos National Laboratory) and Michael Norman of the University of California at San Diego collaborated on this research.

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National Center for Supercomputing Applications

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