Molecular cloud collapse w Mozart's Requiem

"The calculation models the collapse and fragmentation of a molecular cloud with a mass 50 times that of our Sun. The cloud is initially 1.2 light-years (9.5 million million kilometres) in diameter, with a temperature of 10 Kelvin (-263 degrees Celsius).
The cloud collapses under its own weight and very soon stars start to form. Surrounding some of these stars are swirling discs of gas which may go on later to form planetary systems like our own Solar System.
The calculation took approximately 100,000 CPU hours running on up to 64 processors on the UKAFF supercomputer. In terms of arithmetic operations, the calculation required approximately 1016 FLOPS (i.e. 10 million billion arithmetic operations)."
Second part: "A fly-through of the later stages of the evolution of the star cluster, showing the details of some of the star systems and proto-planetary discs."
Animations by Matthew Bate, University of Exeter

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• stars
• astrophysics
• mozart
• astronomy
• animation
• molecular cloud

[zombiemoses]

I have seen the face of god and it is beautiful.

[krabbe88]

the paths look almost totally random to me

[vlaf9]

awesome