Webb Science Simulations: Re-Ionization Era
The visualization shows galaxies, composed of gas, stars and dark matter, colliding and forming filaments in the large-scale universe providing a view of the Cosmic Web. The Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) collaborated with NASA and Drs. Renyue Cen and Jeremiah Ostriker to visualize a simulation of the nonlinear cosmological evolution of the universe.
Drs. Cen and Ostriker developed one of the largest cosmological hydrodynamic simulations and computed over 749 gigabytes of raw data at the NCSA in 2005. AVL used Amore software (http://avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/what-we-do/software) to interpolate and render approximately 322 gigabytes of a subset of the computed data. The simulation begins about 20 million years after the Big Bang - about 13.7 billion years ago - and extends until the present day.
AVL(http://avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/) at NCSA (http://ncsa.illinois.edu/), University of Illinois (www.illinois.edu)
JWST Science Simulations: Galaxy Evolution tracking animation. This visualization shows galaxies, composed of gas, stars and dark matter, colliding and forming filaments in the large-scale universe providing in a view of the Cosmic Web.
JWST Science Simulations: Galaxy Evolution wideshot animation. This visualization shows galaxies, composed of gas, stars and dark matter, colliding and forming filaments in the large-scale universe providing in a view of the Cosmic Web.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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Animators
- Donna Cox (AVL NCSA/University of Illinois)
- Stuart Levy (AVL NCSA/University of Illinois)
- Matthew Hall (AVL NCSA/University of Illinois)
- Robert Patterson (AVL NCSA/University of Illinois)
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Producers
- Michael McClare (HTSI)
- Donna Cox (AVL NCSA/University of Illinois)
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Scientists
- Renyue Cen (Princeton University)
- Jeremiah Ostriker (Princeton University)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, November 1, 2010.
This page was last updated on Monday, July 15, 2024 at 12:11 AM EDT.
Missions
This page is related to the following missions:Series
This page can be found in the following series:Tapes
The media on this page originally appeared on the following tapes:-
JWST Media Resource Reel 2010
(ID: 2010014)
Friday, May 28, 2010 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Clay Anderson (NASA) -
JWST Science Animations
(ID: 2010070)
Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Clay Anderson (NASA)
Related papers
Star Formation Feedback and Metal Enrichment History Of The Intergalactic Medium Renyue Cen, Nora Elisa Chisari (2010) ApJ submitted
Star Formation Feedback and Metal Enrichment History Of The Intergalactic Medium Renyue Cen, Nora Elisa Chisari (2010) ApJ submitted