By Ron Cowen
View a video of galaxy formation in motion at the bottom of this article.
BLOIS, France — Like a proud papa showing off a picture of his newborn, cosmologist Ben Moore of the University of Zurich in Switzerland displayed an image of a galaxy that he says looks just like a newborn Milky Way. These days, with the sharp eye of Hubble and other telescopes, that may not sound like much of a feat. But the image Moore unveiled June 23 at the Windows on the Universe meeting was produced in a supercomputer and is the highest-resolution simulation ever attempted of a galaxy’s assembly.