Hydrodynamical
simulations of cosmological structure formation
Clicking on each
of the images below will download a high-resolution
version of it. The meaning of "high" varies between a few hundred
pixels up to two thousand pixels on a side.
The simulations shown here
are described in the paper:
The history of star formation in a
LCDM universe
Springel V., Hernquist L., 2003, MNRAS, 339, 312.
Volume rendering (gas and stars):
Gasdynamical simulations on a number of different
length-scales:
Zoom onto individual galaxies at redshift z=3: