November 8, 1995
You share your birthday with the light of distant galaxies that has been traveling for millions of years just to arrive here, now, alongside...
Simulating the Universe
Birthday · November 8, 1995
A little universe, just for you
Your date.
Ready to give.
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APOD published November 8, 1995. Full image credits are on the original APOD entry below. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
The above cube represents a chunk of our universe as simulated by the Grand Challenge Cosmology Consortium (GC3). The cube is huge - it would take light 500 million years to cross it. Low density gas is shown as blue, and high density gas as red. In the beginning of the