Scientists at University of California Santa Cruz have simulated a map of the universe using world's most powerful supercomputing facility at NASA AMES Research Center, in Mountain View, California. This simulation took four years to develop! It takes into the account the effects of dark matter and dark energy in formation and evolution of our universe and "is based on the latest version of a “map” of the early universe that was created nearly 10 years ago by a satellite called the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or Wmap". Learn more here.
WMAP has mapped the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation (the oldest light in the universe), produced the first fine-resolution full-sky map of the microwave sky, and determined the age of the universe to be 13.73 billion years old to within 1% error, which is 0.12 billion years, among other findings!
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[1] http://www.mysanantonio.com/life/article/UC-scientists-map-out-the-universe-2195884.php#ixzz1ZSYrVW5a
[2] http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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