Galerie d'images
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I. Simulating the large-scale baryonic Universe
Left panels: large-scale views of the simulated Horizon-AGN Universe with ~100 Mpc size on top left and ~10 Mpc size on bottom left... > more
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II. Simulating the large-scale baryonic Universe
The background image depicts the large-scale cosmic web from Horizon-AGN with a soft transition between gas density... > more
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III. Simulating the large-scale baryonic Universe
Bottom panel shows the gas density (blue) and temperature (red) in the large-scale Horizon-AGN simulation... > more
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Dancing in the Dark
The properties of the galaxies are shaped by the dynamics of the dark matter at large scale. On this picture coming from a cosmological simulation, each dot is a galaxy.
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The Cosmic Microwave Background
The picture shows a map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), that is the first visible light after the Big Bang, as recovered from the Planck satellite maps.
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"This is the type of image we astronomers discard"
I came across this image whilst doing some work and it made me halt my work for a bit as I was taken by it’s beauty. What is seen is an extremely tiny part of the sky, ...