Question: What's the best experience you've had whilst studying the Universe? :)

Monique Henson answered on 12 Nov 2015:

Probably getting use a supercomputer! I get to use a huge computer for my everyday work. It looks like this – and whilst it doesn’t look very exciting it is equivalent to around a thousand normal laptops all working together. These big computers are used to run massive computer simulations of our Universe, which I think is pretty cool.

One of the simulations is called the Illustris simulation. I didn’t run it, but they have some of the best photos, so I thought I’d mention it. I love this photo. One side of it is from the simulation and the other is the photo of the real Universe. Which one do you think is real.