The Universe and the Cosmic Web

"Space, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space..." - Douglas Adams

This is a cool little simulation of the evolution of the universe called the Millennium Simulation. This simulation was run in 2005 and took 28 days to compute with a rate of 200 Billion calculations a second! This final result of the simulation with cube sides of 2 billion light years each, closely resembles the observations of the universe from cosmic surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and provides support for the current model of cosmology, the Lambda Cold Dark Matter Model. Take a peep at the universe and try to comprehend just how massive this place we exist in is!