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Mapping the Milky Way: Incredible simulation charts more than 100 BILLION stars over 10,000 years

Scientists from Japan's RIKEN research centre have created the most detailed simulation of the Milky Way ever made. The incredible galactic map charts more than 100 billion individual stars over the ...
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The simulated Milky Way: 100 billion stars using 7 million CPU cores

Head-on (left) and side-view (right) snapshots of a galactic disk of gas. These snapshots of gas distribution after a supernova explosion were generated by the deep learning surrogate model.