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Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.A fury is building on the surface of the Sun: high-velocity jets, a fiery tsunami wave 100,000 km high, rising loops of electrified gas. What’s driving these…

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Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.A fury is building on the surface of the Sun: high-velocity jets, a fiery tsunami wave 100,000 km high, rising loops of electrified gas. What’s driving these…

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Planet Formation in the Early Solar System

In order to understand the complexities of terrestrial planet formation, new modeling techniques are needed to explain the difference in size an mass between the Earth and Mars. Kevin Walsh, a Senior…

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Tour of First Light in the Renaissance Simulations at 400 Million Years after the Big Bang [data variables, grids, and labels]

PI B. W. O'Shea (MSU), co-PI M. L. Norman (UCSD). NSF OCI-0832662 GRANT: NSF grants AST-1109243, AST-1211626, AST-1333360, and ACI-0832662. Also ACI-1514580 DATA SIZE: 7.8 TB (around 160 GB per…

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Tour of First Light in the Renaissance Simulations at 400 Million Years after the Big Bang [data variables and labels]

PI B. W. O'Shea (MSU), co-PI M. L. Norman (UCSD). NSF OCI-0832662 GRANT: NSF grants AST-1109243, AST-1211626, AST-1333360, and ACI-0832662. Also ACI-1514580 DATA SIZE: 7.8 TB (around 160 GB per…

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Milky Way Analogue Isolated Disk Galaxy

Funded in part by: National Science Foundation Award: ACI-1445176 The Centrality of Advance Dgitally Enabled Science: CADENS The properties of disk galaxies are determined by a balance between…

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Seeing Inside The Sun

Robert Stein, Michigan State University describes how he got interested in astronomy and stars and how he used computing to uncover the secrets of our sun. Funded in part by: National Science…

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First Light in the Renaissance Simulations: Formation of the Very First Galaxies in the Universe [variables w/grids & labels]

PI B. W. O'Shea (MSU), co-PI M. L. Norman (UCSD). NSF OCI-0832662GRANT: NSF grants AST-1109243, AST-1211626, AST-1333360, and ACI-0832662. Also ACI-1514580DATA SIZE: 7.8 TB (around 160 GB per…

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First Light in the Renaissance Simulations: Formation of the Very First Galaxies in the Universe [variables w/labels]

PI B. W. O'Shea (MSU), co-PI M. L. Norman (UCSD). NSF OCI-0832662GRANT: NSF grants AST-1109243, AST-1211626, AST-1333360, and ACI-0832662. Also ACI-1514580DATA SIZE: 7.8 TB (around 160 GB per…

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First Light in the Renaissance Simulations: Formation of the Very First Galaxies in the Universe [evolution]

PI B. W. O'Shea (MSU), co-PI M. L. Norman (UCSD). NSF OCI-0832662GRANT: NSF grants AST-1109243, AST-1211626, AST-1333360, and ACI-0832662. Also ACI-1514580DATA SIZE: 7.8 TB (around 160 GB per…

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First Light in the Renaissance Simulations: Formation of the Very First Galaxies in the Universe

Funded in part by: National Science Foundation Award: ACI-1445176 The Centrality of Advance Dgitally Enabled Science: CADENS PI B. W. O'Shea (MSU), co-PI M. L. Norman (UCSD). NSF…

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Cosmic Bubble Bath: How the First Galaxies Reionize the Universe [variables w/labels]

GRANT: NSF grant AST-1109243 and XSEDE allocation TG-MCA98N020The PRAC project name is "Formation of the First Galaxies: Predictions for the Next Generation of Observatories"DATA SIZE: 12…

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Cosmic Bubble Bath: How the First Galaxies Reionize the Universe [variables]

GRANT: NSF grant AST-1109243 and XSEDE allocation TG-MCA98N020The PRAC project name is "Formation of the First Galaxies: Predictions for the Next Generation of Observatories"DATA SIZE: 12…

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Cosmic Bubble Bath: How the First Galaxies Reionize the Universe [evolving]

GRANT: NSF grant AST-1109243 and XSEDE allocation TG-MCA98N020The PRAC project name is "Formation of the First Galaxies: Predictions for the Next Generation of Observatories"DATA SIZE: 12…

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Cosmic Bubble Bath: How the First Galaxies Reionize the Universe

Funded in part by: National Science Foundation Award: ACI-1445176 The Centrality of Advance Dgitally Enabled Science: CADENS GRANT: NSF grant AST-1109243 and XSEDE allocation TG-MCA98N020The PRAC…

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Stars from the First Supernovae

Funded in part by: National Science Foundation Award: ACI-1445176 The Centrality of Advance Dgitally Enabled Science: CADENS The simulation shows the early formation of the network of filaments and…

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Dark Energy Survey Sky Coverage and Image Zoom

Funded in part by: National Science Foundation Award: ACI-1445176 The Centrality of Advance Dgitally Enabled Science: CADENS A composite illustration of the breadth of the survey from the Dark …

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The Fornax Cluster Imaged by the Dark Energy Camera

Funded in part by: National Science Foundation Award: ACI-1445176 The Centrality of Advance Dgitally Enabled Science: CADENS A Color composite of The Fornax Cluster of galaxies as imaged by Dark…

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Ripples from the Chasm

Probing the wrinkles of space-time. Einstein’s theory of relativity, one of the pillars of modern physics, embodies equations that have never been solved in their full generality. But a…

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Solar Superstorms visualization excerpt: Solar Flares

Solar Superstorms is a full-dome production by NCSA, University of Illinois; Thomas Lucas Productions; Spitz Creative Media Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch Funded in part by: National…

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Solar Superstorms visualization excerpt: The Formation of First Stars and Galaxies

Solar Superstorms is a full-dome production by NCSA, University of Illinois; Thomas Lucas Productions; Spitz Creative Media Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch Funded in part by: National…

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Solar Superstorms visualization excerpt: Solar Plasma Interacting with Earth’s Magnetic Field

Solar Superstorms is a full-dome production by NCSA, University of Illinois; Thomas Lucas Productions; Spitz Creative Media Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch Funded in part by: National…

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Solar Superstorms visualization excerpt: Double Coronal Mass Ejection

Solar Superstorms is a full-dome production by NCSA, University of Illinois; Thomas Lucas Productions; Spitz Creative Media Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch Funded in part by: National…

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Solar Superstorms visualization excerpt: Solar Dynamo / Solar Interior

Solar Superstorms is a full-dome production by NCSA, University of Illinois; Thomas Lucas Productions; Spitz Creative Media Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch Funded in part by: National…

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